> Your point about "no one being convinced by it..." is exactly why it's
> toxic to solidarity.
No quarrel with that. Maybe a quibble: I find that the ad- homines that come my way generally come from people with whom I'm not much *in* solidarity to begin with. That is, the fallacious style of argument mostly seems more a symptom of dissolidarity than a cause. But of course that's a distinction that shouldn't be pressed too far by us dialectical types.
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