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Re:The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:29PM (#15023703)
> And a lot people are ignoring the context, instead pulling straw men out of the text to fight,

If its pulled out of the text, it's (by definition) not a straw man.

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Re:The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @07:44PM (#15023777)
No, a straw man is something that looks like the other person's position, but isn't, and is easier to defeat in an argument.

Can you pull out of the text something that is not the author's actual position? Of course you can. It happens all the time.

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