verb1.
Deliberately misunderstanding an interlocutor, in bad faith, with the intention of mischaracterizing said interlocutor’s position in order to morally impugn her/him
2.
Misrepresenting a given position of an interlocutor and committing her/him more to bizarre and/or morally reprehensible ones.
(
Esp. if the given position is a descriptive one, and it is misrepresented as a prescriptive one)
3.
After an interlocutor has taken a given position (as indicated by an action,
set of actions, part of a statement, a statement, and/or a
set of statements), prefacing with an indicator that the following mischaracterization is in fact an accurate representation of the position (
e.g. "so, what you'
re saying is..."), and them misrepresenting the position,
esp. when a neutral descriptive position is misrepresented as a bizarre and/or reprehensible prescriptive position.
Variants:
Newmaning
Related terms:
Straw-man Strawman Strawmanning
Straw-manning Mischaracterization Mischaracterizing Misrepresentation Misrepresenting Logical fallacy Logical fallacies Sophistry Lies Lying Pilpul Jordan Peterson
SJW Frame Ideologue
1
C:
"So you're saying"
*Bad faith misunderstanding*
"in your research,women are unhappy"
*mischaracterizing*
"dominating men"
*morally impugning(J's SexRel descriptions as vulgar D/s prescriptions)*
J:
Newman!
2
W:
Here:a pic of you with a Pepe flag;Pepe is called a hate symbol by the Left
J:
You're a.deliberately misunderstanding what Pepe is & what it stands for,b.mischaracterizing me as shamefully complicit in,or
ignorant of what what you think Pepe really means&overstating the judgement of the Left;&c.morally impugning me implying I support hate:ergo Newmanning
3
P:
Anti-"Chain Migrant"(CM) Conservatives want to remove from
Americans the right to sponsor
family
S:
The more
American your
family is,the less you possess "right" to sponsor CM.There's a net negative impact from a "right" to sponsor CM, including nepotism.
P:
So,your concept of '
real' Americans is those who aren't immigrants or their families.Only Natives apply.Racist
S:
Think before castigating.If you're a US citizen but your
family members aren't,you get to sponsor them as CM.If they're Americans,however,you
don't have any privilege to sponsor CM. When you say"So,your concept of",it's to preface a deliberate bad-faith misunderstanding,equivalent to"what you're saying is"; when you say"your concept of '
real' Americans is those who aren't immigrants or their families.Only Natives apply",it's mischaracterizing my position; when you say"Racist", it's to morally impugn me:you Newmanner
