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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by andrewprock on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:56PM (#23785111)
From the post you link to:

"Why not assassinate prominent racist and sexist politicians and intellectuals?"

I would definitely qualify these kind of straw-men as a "certain pattern" of language designed to incite rather than for insight.

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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by mst on Thursday July 09, 2020 @06:07PM (#23785809)
When it's a reply to somebody speaking of war and weapons and given as a disapproving extrapolation ad absurdum of that attitude, I don't see that it's intended to incite so much as to elucidate the idea that incitement is itself a bad thing.
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