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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by tomrod on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:02PM (#28695540)
shrug. Labels are quite effective for concise communication, all negatives aside. Such as your classification of my point as a strawman (which I don't consider it to be), you communicate a precise response with a single word.
Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by EEMac on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @05:51PM (#28700456)
Sure.

But "anti-vaxxer" has two meanings which are conveniently confused in current usage.

1. Someone against all vaccines 2. Someone against the current COVID vaccines

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by colordrops on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:23PM (#28695902)
strawman is a description of your argument, not you. It doesn't make a judgement about what kind of person you are, and that you have been or always will make bad arguments.

It's very different from calling you Strawman-er, which would be making unfounded assumptions about your general argumentation style and would pre-judge future statements by you.

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by tomrod on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:49PM (#28696339)
"Anti-vaccine advocate" is clear. It identifies a set of behaviors that are intellectually dishonest, either claiming hesitancy, outright denying science, or (even worse) economically benefitting by sowing confusion.

When people don't do this, they aren't advocating against vaccination.

My understanding of the strawman fallacy is that the strawman is inaccurate. None is expressed here, simply labeling a phenomenon.

> which would be making unfounded assumptions about your general argumentation style and would pre-judge future statements by you.

After decades of internet discussion, such charity from people holding opposing viewpoints appears to be rare even when explicitly and rigorously adopted.