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by pfannkuchen 480 days ago
By the way, this is such a textbook example of how planted counter narratives brainwash people into deflecting actual criticism on a topic.

People interpret the speaker as if he is “one of those people”, who believes the counter narrative the listener has heard about.

Rarely does the listener move past this point, and check in on whether the speaker is actually one of those people, or if he is someone who has never heard of those people, or if he has ignored those people because he thinks their views are just as stupid as you think they are, and he is actually independently criticizing the topic.