So you have choices to stop them poisoning the well.
1) Use them: return the insult and restate the central argument using the idiot as a relay station, and use KOTH games to make others force them out of the discourse.
2) Insult, dismiss and block them
3) Ignore them altogether
Source date (UTC): 2020-10-20 20:00:33 UTC
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Let’s point out that the moment a public intellectual engages the dirty unwashed masses (the public) there are certain defensive techniques you adopt because of the tendency of some (ignorant, opinionated males) to engage in ad-homs, psychologizing, and moralizing. https://twitter.com/VonMornings/status/1318637473900134402
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