There's a curious new rhetorical strategy I'm encountering more and more often in online spaces wherein ignorance about a claim is taken to refute it. It goes a bit like the script below. It's the death-of-expertise script, but with an additional twist.
Has anyone written about this?
@ct_bergstrom Does it work? I mean does it get any support or convince anyone?
Because to me such position looks just stupid. A person doesn't know and doesn't want to know. Any further communication is just pointless.
@xi_timpin @ct_bergstrom @semoriil
"I suspect the point is to waste your time. "
I just had the horrible thought that this would fit in with one kind of time management. Reply, kick it out of your queue, and you don't have to worry about it for a time.
Carl T. Bergstrom
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