A Top Eleven 'Intellectual Flashbangs' (words) Countdown. Who Takes The Top Honours?

How intellectual, flashbangs, verbal landminds, or ideological IEDs have rendered some language meaningless, stopped discussion and fed tribalism.

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Intellectual Flashbangs – Sudden, disorienting words used to stun an opponent rather than engage in discourse; they silence rather than argue a point and make meaningful debate impossible by attaching a moral failing to one side.

One person senses futility that they can't speak without being denigrated, and the other is comfortable in the delusion that this intellectual flashbang has blown up their opponent's argument when all it has done is stop the conversation.

The tosser kicked over the chess board, took his pieces, and went home.

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