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The shit Rekieta does resembles the motte-and-bailey tactic commonly used by the lowest form of life, redditors, in argumentation.
Where he's saying something that has a dual meaning, one less damning for him to fall back on if called out, and one more damning/deceptive for the target if not. I never understood the insult "wordcel" until listening to that shit on the last episode, it's fucking embarrassing that he acts as if it's some clever shit when it's about as clever a rhetorical trick as the classic loaded question. This is gradeschooler shit.
A Motte and Bailey castle is a medieval system of defence in which a stone tower on a mound (the Motte) is surrounded by an area of land (the Bailey) which in turn is encompassed by some sort of a barrier such as a ditch. Being dark and dank, the Motte is not a habitation of choice. The only reason for its existence is the desirability of the Bailey, which the combination of the Motte and ditch makes relatively easy to retain despite attack by marauders.
When only lightly pressed, the ditch makes small numbers of attackers easy to defeat as they struggle across it: when heavily pressed the ditch is not defensible and so neither is the Bailey. Rather one retreats to the insalubrious but defensible, perhaps impregnable, Motte. Eventually the marauders give up, when one is well placed to reoccupy desirable land.
[The Bailey] represents a philosophical doctrine or position with similar properties: desirable to its proponent but only lightly defensible. The Motte is the defensible but undesired position to which one retreats when hard pressed.
An example given by Shackel is the statement "morality is socially constructed". In this example, the motte is that our beliefs about right and wrong are socially constructed, while the bailey is that there is no such thing as right and wrong.[3]
Where he's saying something that has a dual meaning, one less damning for him to fall back on if called out, and one more damning/deceptive for the target if not. I never understood the insult "wordcel" until listening to that shit on the last episode, it's fucking embarrassing that he acts as if it's some clever shit when it's about as clever a rhetorical trick as the classic loaded question. This is gradeschooler shit.