Readers of Trish Roberts-Miller’s essay <a href="http://www.drw.utexas.edu/roberts-miller/handouts/demagoguery" rel="nofollow"><i>Characteristics of Demagoguery</i></a> will recognize in the preceding exchange a quibbling legalistic defense by (what TRM's essay calls) members of the <i>Climate etc.</i> “Ingroup” of polarizing hate-speech directed against “the Outgroup” … in the <i>persona</i> of Louise.
<b>Summary</b> The quibbling defense of hate-speech is a diagnostic trait of demagoguery that, as the scientific evidence of climate-change becomes stronger, is becoming deplorably more prevalent on skeptical forums.
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