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Field Guide to Mind Control

Name Calling

Attach a hostile label to a person or idea, so the label does the arguing.

How it controls you

Once the label sticks, you stop weighing the argument and start reacting to the name. The word does the thinking for you. Dismissal becomes automatic. No evidence required, and none offered.

Spotted in the wild

"shill"
"extremist"
"denier"
"puppet"
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More techniques:
Loaded Language · Appeal to Fear · Manufactured Urgency · Flag Waving · False Dilemma · Manufactured Consensus · Casting Doubt · Thought-Terminating Cliché · Whataboutism · Appeal to Authority · Causal Oversimplification · Repetition

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