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The strawman political page defines a strawman as \
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The strawman political page defines a strawman as \\\"a deliberately crippled version of an opposing viewpoint that the author uses to try and support their own position.\\\"
By this definition accurately portraying a repugnant viewpoint and then rejecting it is not constructing a strawman.
That\\\'s why there aren\\\'t \\\"strawman Nazis\\\" or \\\"strawman racists.\\\" It\\\'s not like you have to misrepresent these people or cripple their arguments to make them look bad.
By this definition accurately portraying a repugnant viewpoint and then rejecting it is not constructing a strawman.
That\\\'s why there aren\\\'t \\\"strawman Nazis\\\" or \\\"strawman racists.\\\" It\\\'s not like you have to misrepresent these people or cripple their arguments to make them look bad.
