shrug. That’s at best a nitpick. It’s a minor side issue to whether what HBD proponents talk about is actually true or if true how it’s relevant. Everyone is guilty of all sorts of cheap rhetorical tricks. One could even say that attacking a movement, the implications of which are potentially EXTREMELY important on a semantic point is a rhetorical trick, and not an expensive one at that.
That’s precisely the author’s point: the two usages are different enough that using the same word looks like a cheap rhetorical trick.
shrug. That’s at best a nitpick. It’s a minor side issue to whether what HBD proponents talk about is actually true or if true how it’s relevant. Everyone is guilty of all sorts of cheap rhetorical tricks. One could even say that attacking a movement, the implications of which are potentially EXTREMELY important on a semantic point is a rhetorical trick, and not an expensive one at that.