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Queen Elizabeth II has died
Both 'opinions' or 'facts' can easily be flamewar tangents - the form and context count for a lot. There's lots of moderator commentary on this.
happytoexplain
on Sept 8, 2022
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Indeed - the implication that a statement merely containing anything factual or backed by evidence makes the whole thing uncriticizable ("but it's true") is maybe
the
most common fallacy made in defense of provocative statements.
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