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[–] Splooge [S] 0 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago 

  • "There's a lot to unpack here"
  • "Let's take this point by point"
  • "No ifs ands or buts about it"
  • "This is problematic"

etc etc etc

All warning signs for sure.

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[–] carlip 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Don't forget this

"Let me/us be clear"

It is ALWAYS followed by lies.

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[–] ThirteenthZodiac 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I hate that they've abused "problematic," it was one of my favorite words.

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[–] auchtung ago 

Not sure if you were trying to be funny, but this made me laugh.

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[–] registerinsecond 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I hate all these empty expressions

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[–] philmchawk ago 

Disagree on point by point but the rest 100%. You'll notice on all the rest it lets them omit parts of your argument and makes your argument "too much to handle".

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[–] Splooge [S] ago  (edited ago)

Oh the “point by point” thing is a misdirect every time.

Say you rattle off a bunch of statistics, say, percentage of nog-on-nog crime, percentage of nogs in jail, the Bell Curve and the number of cops killed by nogs.

A standard response will be “Let’s take this point by point,” then they’ll select the “weakest” one and focus entirely on that. If you try to bring up one of the other points, you’ll be chided not to “change the subject” or “get off topic.” In the provided example, they’d probably go after “mass incarceration.”

In some cases, when they’re completely lost, they’ll use the line too, but then introduce a completely new premise and pretend you brought it up.

So as with the provided example, it’d be something like “Okay, let’s take this point by point. We all agree with the fact that poverty affects a large number of African American communities; no one is gonna disagree with you on that. The real question we should ask is what’s the best way to resolve the issues of lack of jobs, support programs and discriminatory banking systems?”