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"straw man" Definitions
  1. a weak imaginary opponent or argument that is set up in order to be defeated easily

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In law, we call this a straw man argument: build up a straw man and it's easy to burn him down.
"The reusable straw, man, it drives me crazy," she said.
The straw man or am I the voice of sanity?
JS: I think that's a bit of a straw man argument.
It may make an easy target, but it's a straw man.
Always offer the other side's strongest case, not the straw man.
So the Trump straws are … wait for it … a straw man.
Tom (Matthew Macfayden) is a straw man for the news organization.
Instead, however, that core question was used as a straw man.
Too many debates are "fact-free zones" full of straw-man attacks.
Dery tries to solve the problem with a fancy straw-man argument.
Waiting for the midterms, Twitter meets the Constitution, uncommon carriers, straw man superheros.
And you know what, he never ever did ever made a straw man.
Trump's "well you didn't like Comey either" is an insanely stupid straw man.
These policies are based on straw-man arguments that conflate terrorism with immigration.
"This is a classic straw man argument," says Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.
In the end, Gopnik's woodworker starts to look more like a straw man.
Anderson's straw man is built from a long-since discarded Potomac two-step.
The Federal Election Commission is investigating potentially improper "straw man donations" to Rep.
Don't let President Trump or Republican officials distract you with a straw man.
The attack on rockism has always had all the elements of a straw man.
But this straw man is ultimately empty, there are no candy entrails spilled below.
"I've always thought of it as this straw man for white people," Parker explains.
But you know you're laughing at a straw man, or rather a straw woman.
BOORSTIN: DO YOU THINK THAT – DILLER: SO I THINK IT IS A STRAW MAN.
Conversely, phases 1 through 3 could utilize similar straw-man tactics on the deposit end.
"Don't let President Trump or Republican officials distract you with a straw man," Amash tweeted.
The comparison to Obama's fine by the FEC is a total and complete straw man.
The senile, reactionary elder who's the target of Silicon Valley's youth bias is a straw man.
I don't want you to think this is a straw man, because it sounds like one.
Mostly, the characters of this book exist to have extended straw-man arguments about economic theory.
Snarky straw man arguments are crafted and knocked down to give the impression of rebutting them.
Start by spending money on innovation at levels that turn this article into a straw-man argument.
I give Elizabeth Warren credit for having done some homework and come up with a straw man.
But that straw man will be hard to dispatch so long as he is running the country.
"It's a complete and utter straw man, and no one should be fooled by it," Watts said.
He also creates a straw man by asking whether Facebook alone can solve the problem of polarization.
The account then posted to its Instagram story a screenshot of a definition of the "straw man" fallacy.
But "bureaucracy" has become a straw man for any issues Americans see in their government, especially congressional roadblocks.
He was going after a straw man that has been around since Ronald Reagan's Cadillac-driving welfare cheat.
"Exxon's response to the allegations from journalists and investigators was a kind of gloss or straw man," he says.
To the Editor: Adam Grant sets up so many straw man arguments that one hardly knows where to begin.
Technology, a mixed blessing to be sure, is here a towering straw man, responsible for much of our unhappiness.
Galanis, working with his family members, then helped the straw man deposit the shares into U.S. brokerage accounts, prosecutors said.
The right wing media and Sean Spicer are using the misguided grief poured into these signs as a straw man.
Some of them are still aimed at the young rappers who've made him a straw man for everything … not young.
While you're fixated on the straw man threat of the people who don't look like you, you're blowing yourselves apart.
In showing how simple it is, the segment dismantles the straw man set up by pieces like the Daily Mail's.
Not to mention, every time someone declares their queerness, the well-worn straw man argument about "natural" coupling thins and teeters.
So, Mr. Netanyahu has discovered that the other camp has a straw man too, one that functions in a similar way.
I hear a lot about a popular straw man — the coddled college "snowflake" who can't deal with ideas that are different.
That can sometimes feel less like revealing a hidden truth and more like building a straw man and blowing it down.
Still, I've always thought the commonly propagated complaint about the dearth of "classic" films on Netflix something of a straw man.
" Schawinski sympathizes with Pearl's position, but he described the idea of working with "data alone" as "a bit of a straw man.
Most striking in this interaction will be how little Judge Kavanaugh resembles the straw man the left has been attacking for weeks.
Cole's constructed narrative sets up McCurry as a straw man in opposition to Raghubir Singh, while no such opposition in fact exists.
"Don't let President Trump or Republican officials distract you with a straw man," Amash tweeted last month after Democrats launched the inquiry.
A gruff general, disagreeing with Kirkman and peacocking around the edges like a cartoon villain, serves as a pretty flimsy straw man.
This straw man is also built from a sad contemporary trend of Catholic bishops discarding individual conscience in favor of religious hegemony.
The library clerk goes on to tell me that sovereign citizens don't have to pay taxes because of the "straw man" theory.
" Yesterday, an internal email accidentally sent to Buzzfeed's Nitasha Tiku by a Facebook spokesperson referred to the potential registry as a "straw man.
While I won't go quite as far as to call it a straw man, that post was definitely designed to provoke a response.
It's also worth noting that, while the above straw man posits a sudden shock, we see this play out every day in ETFs.
So here's what The Mandibles leave us with: flat characters who exist as mouthpieces for smugly condescending straw-man arguments on economic theory.
I call this a "straw man" because it may or may not be your ultimate move, but it's your best idea right now.
A critic alleged that "this was a strange straw man," because would Murray disagree that the best educational programs could raise "social capital"?
" The Kremlin also deployed the straw man argument of claiming that "any Russian citizen with a mobile is thought to be a spy.
The wine-snob card is a crude straw man, of course, but we know what they mean: The rigmarole around wine is intimidating.
The examples provided by the act's drafters are attacking a straw man — an individual who provides false information, knowing it to be false.
It is a straw man argument to claim that the other side holds beliefs they do not and then attack them for it.
But it's difficult to indulge Grassley's fallacy even for the sake of argument, because his account of the "wise Latina" controversy is a straw man.
Finally, the hypothetical person intent on spreading HIV is a straw man, or at least such an insignificant minority that it's an untenable basis for legislation.
The straw man is that I argued that Trump could do anything he wanted as long as he believed his election was in the national interest.
Our suspicion is that the many gravity modellers from around the world evaluated a nonsensical Brexit straw man during the referendum, in order to oppose it.
I'm sure by the time Trump finishes talking he will be transgender, but so, he's like a perfect sort of straw man for the Trumpian rhetoric.
Nationalism is a powerful current in Iranian life, and Mr. Trump is offering Ayatollah Khamenei the gift of a credible straw man — with alacrity, it seems.
At best, the notion of political correctness having gone too far is intellectually dishonest; a fallacy similar to a straw-man argument or an ad hominem attack.
The email compared any statement regarding the building of a Muslim registry to a "straw man" argument and suggested Facebook's PR strategy should be to remain silent.
It's the malicious or the lazy distortion of my view, the straw man, in other — or worse, just a complete inversion of it, that drives me nuts.
This might be an anecdotal straw-man argument, but people usually say his name with respectful restrain: Iguodala is *dramatically lowers voice* saving it for the playoffs.
At those early meetings held to discuss the problem, lay out the issues clearly, demonstrate you've studied them from all sides and present your straw-man recommendation.
That said, it is obvious that Common Core is a straw man for her argument that minorities and English learners have been disproportionately affected by stringent educational requirements.
The makers of the ACT and SAT said on Tuesday that the plaintiffs had created a straw man by blaming the tests for inequality in society and education.
Mr. Trump in effect set up a straw man by overstating their testimony, and they could honestly knock it down without taking back what they actually did say.
Bannon's vision of Brussels bureaucrats devouring national identity for breakfast is largely a straw-man argument, useful for making the European Union the focus of all 21st-century angst.
The Federal Election Commission is investigating Watkins's father for "straw man" donations to the 85033 congressional campaign, which would be a violation of federal law, Politico reported on Friday.
In an email intended for one of his colleagues, a Facebook spokesman told BuzzFeed's Nitasha Tiku:Happy to talk to her off record about why this is attacking a straw man.
The closest anyone had come were legendary lunkhead Matt Williams and Dave Kingman, surly avenger deity of the Three True Outcomes and former straw man to the anti-Moneyball crowd.
"I think that was always kind of a straw man bear case that the bulls put out there to say, 'Hey it's not as bad as Tusa thinks' or whatever."
Fidel: The S here actually stands for straw man, because the type of socialism that Republicans are attacking isn't quite the same as the one that progressives are pushing for.
Gervais has argued that he's laughing at racists, sexists, the homophobic, and the ableists, using his character as a straw man to spout their views before he's burned to the ground.
Images: GettyIn an email accidentally sent to a BuzzFeed reporter, a Facebook spokesperson said the idea of a Muslim registry is a "straw man"—a sham argument that misrepresents another's belief.
In making this argument, Giuliani has played a word game in which he has effectively created a straw man and then denied it&aposs real because it&aposs made of straw.
If only there weren't the mighty straw man blocking our progressive agenda shouts one side; if only there weren't the nefarious establishment foiling our quest for conservative purity, shouts the other.
Most of all, the establishment makes for a potent straw man in the hands of people who otherwise might not know precisely what they're fighting, only that they're angry and frustrated.
There are a few times when the biggest villain in this book is not the Riddler but the Straw Man, a rhetorical device of which Mr. Weldon can be overly fond.
Giuffre's lawyer Cassell blasted the blogger and men's rights advocate as an avowed "slut-shamer" acting as a straw man for Dershowitz, something the Harvard professor and his attorney vehemently denied.
Having villains who can put forth more than straw-man arguments strengthens both franchises' heroes by forcing them to not only fight evil, but to find a better way to do good.
"While I won't go quite as far as to call it a straw man, that post was definitely designed to provoke a response," Bosworth wrote in a memo obtained by The Verge.
The lazily constructed straw-man version of libertarianism, which treats it as a subsidiary of conservatism, ignores both the tangled history of radical thought and the beliefs and representations of actual libertarians.
For example, at 49A we have the clue "First home of the three rich little pigs?" and the answer is STRAW MANSION, which is taken from "straw man" arguments + the "shun" sound.
DOJ, the Flores lawyers said, erected a straw man, insisting that the Sabraw injunction will prevent immigration officials from releasing migrant kids from detention with their parents, as anticipated in the Flores agreement.
He has also been given a platform to advance the idea that he was unfairly banned from the main stage, while laying the blame for that on conservatives' favorite straw-man: the media.
Ms. Goldsmith accepted a position as senior editor at Harper's Bazaar in the early 1970s but soon left to write "The Straw Man," a novel of intrigue and perfidy in the art world.
In addition to pursuing the virtue of civil discourse, how can we argue our own views effectively if we have nothing more than an over-simplified straw man understanding of the other side?
Dan Caldwell, the executive director of Concerned Veterans for America, strenuously disputed Dr. Shulkin's analysis and said the secretary was using privatization as a "straw man" to distract from his own ethical lapses.
So far, we have seen none of the money — and in its place, besides a gauzy plan that relies on tax credits for private investors, we have the straw man of environmental regulation.
But when a PR person accidentally emailed a reporter from BuzzFeed calling its silence on the subject a "straw man" — a tangential argument that is constructed specifically to be defeated — BuzzFeed published that email.
"This debate should be driven by facts and common sense, not fear-mongering about targeting 'widows and orphans' or other straw-man arguments from the White House that demean a serious conversation," he said.
" She told Recode's Kara Swisher that it's "premature" for her to endorse any one of the nominees, but praised Senator Elizabeth Warren for "having done some homework and come up with a straw man.
Dr. K. and The Straw Man lived seemingly parallel lives, right down to the oddity of sharing the 286s nerd-signifying middle name of Eugene, but they didn't share a mind, body, or soul.
Judis constructs a straw man when he takes on "the cosmopolitan liberals who believe in a borderless world," for how many liberal arguments, outside a John Lennon lyric, seriously demand a world without countries?
Over the decades, it has been continuously fashionable to make a straw man of my declaration, to hoist it up as the sort of woolly-headed hippie nonsense you'd expect from techno-utopians like me.
"While I won't go quite as far as to call it a straw man, that post was definitely designed to provoke a response," Bosworth wrote in a new memo posted Thursday, obtained by the Verge.
Since then, Facebook has expressed opposition, but only in the wake of an email accidentally sent to BuzzFeedyesterday that deemed the issue a "straw man," one that company reps should only discuss off the record.
Taking hold in the two-decade heyday of liberal hegemony following 1989, this sanitized image of liberal democracy has become the favorite straw man of illiberal politicians today, including the president of the United States.
"It seems like people ... like the president are speaking to a small base of people who want — just like the Iranians do — to create a straw man to consider an enemy," Sipher said on MSNBC.
A favorite refrain among his supporters on the campaign trail, Trump's attacks on refugees tapped into much of the country's rising fear of terrorism while locating a convenient straw man in his rhetorical battle against ISIS.
They heard my Lincoln and Obama examples but, instead of responding to those on the merits, which they were unable to do, they decided to create an easy but false straw man which they could mock.
As such, a sanctions evasion/currency cleansing operation could clean $2000.01 million per 0003 people per week like this: — $2000 million dollars is spread out across 26 straw man intermediaries, each responsible for cleansing $2400 million.
Frustratingly, my Republican colleagues reject such proposals and instead invoke the straw man argument that "a gun is not a disease" and therefore the CDC has no premise to study our nation's epidemic of gun violence.
Chris Christie of New Jersey and was a figure in the bridge-closing scandal, is well liked by most of the White House employees and seen by some as an unfair straw man for larger problems.
Andre P. JaureguiNew York To the Editor: Binyamin Appelbaum sets up a straw man in order to advance an attack on preservation that has been mounted in recent years by a number of developers and economists.
Watch ... Luke even goes so far as to say that Jay's essentially acting as a straw man for the league thus far, and gives him an F rating when it comes to mixing up the acts.
Mr Mishra sustains an angry assault on the notion—which in his depiction risks creating a straw man—that progress has led in a graceful arc from the Enlightenment to the liberal internationalism that prevailed until recently.
Chairman Pai responded today with a letter essentially answering a straw man version of the problems presented above: In light of my commitment to protecting the First Amendment and freedom of the press, I must respectfully decline.
Prosecutors said in 2010, Hirst, Gerova's president and board chairman, worked with Galanis to use a straw man and fake documents to issue $72 million worth of Gerova stock that they would secretly control without board approval.
The senator "is setting up a straw man — trying implicitly to make the claim that scientists who say the climate is changing are also saying there's not going to be any more cold weather," Dr. Sobel said.
The Association appropriately credits the 2010 Aviation Safety Act with contributing to eight subsequent years without accidents but creates a straw man argument when he equates Thune's provision with undermining a large collection of enumerated regulatory enhancements.
That confrontation comes off as a simple straw man argument between a stubborn, get-off-my-lawn-type elderly conservative and a bratty, elitist kid, created simply to remind viewers how annoying and entitled city-living teens are.
That secret account creates a "straw man" persona meant to serve as collateral for the monetary system in lieu of a gold standard; the key to accessing the fortune is hidden in the text of U.S. commerce regulations.
Senator Ted Cruz, who chairs the Subcommittee on Science and Space, told Reuters after the hearing Elwell's estimate was "a little bit of straw man" and deflected from serious concerns about the FAA delegation of responsibilities to Boeing.
As Lankford indicated, however, the point of taking up Trump's "straw man" proposal isn't so much to pass the existing version as it is to start a conversation about a new one that could hopefully secure some bipartisan backing.
What we are witnessing and what Hill has fallen victim to is the identity politics of using the flag as a political straw man to ignite Trump's base coupled with the potential of losing millions of dollars in advertising.
A Facebook spokesperson had previously called the registry, which was originally proposed by President-elect Trump during the campaign, a "straw man," or a sham argument designed to be defeated, in an email accidentally sent to a reporter at BuzzFeed.
"Barlow was sometimes held up as a straw man for a kind of naive techno-utopianism that believed that the Internet could solve all of humanity's problems without causing any more," EFF executive director Cindy Cohn wrote in a statement.
Prosecutors in both New York and New Jersey have reportedly opened preliminary investigations into Trump's inaugural committee, including whether foreign nationals who attended inaugural events made prohibited donations to the committee by using "straw man" donors to hide their participation.
To the Editor: The complexity of the American maternity care system results in all births in America being more dangerous than they should be, for both mother and baby, and blaming the certified professional midwife credential is a straw man argument.
Clinton, speaking Monday night at a gun violence roundtable in New York, ticked off a list of Sanders's past votes on guns, including opposition to background check bills, and said he is using a straw-man argument to explain his record.
"I don't see a purpose at this point to create a challenge, a straw man to argue about, when in reality we all know what the ultimate results are," said Mr. Klipsch, who does not belong to a political party.
Letters To the Editor: Re "Among the Abortion Extremists," by Ross Douthat (column, April 8): I think the point of Mr. Douthat's column was simply to create a straw man of "abortion extremists" to advocate for his anti-choice views.
Instead, he uses his op-ed to build up a straw man he can feebly knock down, standing on the fiction of a Democratic majority that would ram through government-run health care and "open-border socialism" at the southern border.
" Cindy Cohn, the foundation's executive director, said in a statement that Mr. Barlow "was sometimes held up as a straw man for a kind of naïve techno-utopianism that believed that the internet could solve all of humanity's problems without causing any more.
I'm not all that interested in having the Android versus iPhone debate because I feel that it's a bit of a straw man, given that platform lock-in means that fewer and fewer people over time are making a truly agnostic platform choice.
It was, of course, used by the pro-German, anti-Semitic organization that in the 1940s tried to get the U.S. to sign a treaty with Hitler and stay out of World War II. On the third straw man: I could not agree more.
This period was not helpful in relieving my mother of her fear that vaccines are damaging when not spaced out—a straw-man argument widely repeated among conservatives—but her distrust of the system did not override her desire for me to go to college.
Some called him out over the disparate costumes between the performers — the normal clothes of the "Christian extremist" against the highly stereotypical dress of the "Muslim" one — and how it created a straw man conflict that didn't jive with the supposed purpose of the video.
Since I'm not aware of any precise antonym to the term "straw man," I hereby nominate the noun "krauthammer" to serve the function, defined in two ways: (1) as the strongest possible counterargument to your opinion; (2) a person of deep substance and complete integrity.
Like the president, Sanders wants to expand background checks, get rid of the gun show loophole and the straw man provision (which lets someone buy a gun legally, and then sell to someone who hasn't gone through a background check), and focus more on mental health, too.
Thankfully, we have Twitter now, so a good way to assuage yourself of guilt and pain is to go on there and blame literally everyone but yourself for what happened, and start conspiracy theories about how this is actually [insert straw man of your choice]'s fault.
This history of neglect goes all the way back to 1993 when Congress allowed the sale of America's leading rare earth magnet company, Magnequech, to China via a straw-man transaction that was linked directly to the family of Deng Xiaoping, the former Premier Leader of China.
As much as the series has been offering straw man arguments to justify Negan's behavior since the Saviors came on the scene, no one is trying to hold up a baseball-wielding serial killer as a role model for leadership, no matter how charismatic Jeffrey Dean Morgan is.
Levin is a master of the old debater's trick of setting up and knocking down a straw man: He almost never quotes an actual person advocating for a return to the 1950s, but he consistently presents himself as a lonely voice with the courage to envision something different.
Tabloid columnists and self-admiring sports talk radio type feed this inchoate rage with white-hot takes lambasting the team for trading such an accomplished player for so little, when dealing him months ago was the Obvious Thing To Do. Straw man arguments aside, just about everyone loses in this deal.
Although they have a tendency to jam on for rather long amounts of time, Siggi Mwasote also sings lyrics, in English, usually with socially conscious themes; although "Bata Boy" targets homophobia and "So Sue Us" abuses that eternal straw man, the music business executive, elsewhere their protest songs appear to lack targets.
" He mused: "Over the decades, it has been continuously fashionable to make a straw man of my declaration, to hoist it up as the sort of woolly-headed hippie nonsense you'd expect from techno-utopians like me...It's hardly the best thing I ever wrote and suffers many flaws, both cosmetic and substantive.
These included locating an individual from a "tax-convenient" jurisdiction to be the straw man owner of an offshore account, concealing the true American owner, or encouraging one client it knew was a United States resident to use his foreign passports to open accounts offshore, again to avoid scrutiny from regulators, the documents show.
The speech Keith is reading for the audition is the one in which Othello, before the Venetian senate, answers the charge that he has seduced Desdemona by witchcraft; the director — a straw man of a role deftly managed by Josh Tyson — urges him to perform it with "obeisance" and yet "obsession," foreshadowing the tragic climax four acts later.
I would have assumed he was fighting a straw man here, but one thing I've learned is that a certain class of liberal doesn't approach job loss from trade with a regrettable sense of the trade-offs, but instead a more absolutist belief that Americans don't have any claim on the jobs that go away anyway.
" It's a view echoed by commentator Aaron Stein, who wrote in foreign policy website War on the Rocks that Erdogan: "Seemed to be using nuclear weapons as a straw man to make a broader argument about Ankara's place in the world, and how the American and Western systems with which Turkey had long associated itself are unfair and require change.
The path leading from weed to harder drugs is a made-up thing that's only cited by your relatives and congressional representatives when they need a straw man for Why The World is Bad, but the path from opioid painkillers to heroin is a horrifically well-documented epidemic that is one of the great disgraces of the modern medical industry.
The narcissist is anyone and everyone — the bad boyfriend or bad girlfriend, the bad analysand ("From the perspective of Freud's emerging 'science,' if they didn't need therapy, their self-sufficiency must be a case of arrested development"), the millennial in the middle, probably no more self-involved than any other generation — which makes him a bit of a straw man.
One of the sources said the options include improving the National Instant Criminal Background Check System database so failed checks can be reported to state and local law enforcement, cracking down on so-called straw man purchases so people can't buy guns for others under false names, funding mental health programs, implementing capital punishment for mass murderers and overhauling domestic terror laws.
Along the way, there are mishaps galore, near misses and hairbreadth escapes, managed by our intrepid young archetype with the aid of some unexpected (and mostly unwelcome) allies and hangers-on: a thievish waif, a good-hearted witch, a literal straw man with arguably more humanity than your average human, as well as the occasional colorful bit player, like the innkeeper with the interesting side job of vivisectionist.
The problem is that those who make this particular argument are building somewhat of a straw man, not only because of the blanket assumptions they are making around a very specific tax-neutral design, but also because they aren't publicly acknowledging just how poorly our present means-tested programs are targeted by virtue of their applied conditions, and just how unequal one dollar can be to one dollar, however counterintuitive that may seem.
These straw-man fictitious Jews, depicted in the document for example, announce that: "It is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the mind of the "goyim" the very principle of god-head and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs" The Protocols were used by the Nazis as propaganda and are still distributed and presented as fact by organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah, and remain in common use among extremist right-wing groups.
He seemed to say he'd restrict trade with any country that doesn't have "roughly equivalent to the wages and environmental standards in the United States," which would mean we wouldn't trade with most of the world (and that would be devastating to many poor countries); he was vague about exactly how he'd break up large banks and prosecute bank executives for fraud; he said he wanted to "do away with the straw man provision, where you can buy a gun legally and then sell it to somebody who's a criminal" (straw purchases are already illegal); and when asked about riding the New York subway, he mentioned getting a token; tokens went out of use 13 years ago.
Sen. James LankfordJames Paul LankfordHillicon Valley: GOP hits back over election security bills | Ratcliffe out for intel chief | Social media companies consider policies targeting 'deepfakes' | Capital One, GitHub sued over breach The Hill's 12:30 Report: Biden camp feels boost after Detroit debate GOP punches back in election security fight MORE (R-Okla.) on Sunday called President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's proposal to extend protections for some immigrants in exchange for wall funding a "straw man proposal" that is not meant to become law.

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