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strawperson explicit example

Your source..."The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position."

Here is Bowser's distorted and unsubstantiated misrepresentation of my statement...

"it would seem that it is NOT anti-Semitism to disagree with the Israeli foreign policy. But you think not"

Au contraire.

THAT's a classic strawman example.

-p

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