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Psychological research has explored the potential effects of tone policing, suggesting that individuals consistently subjected to such policing can experience frustration, feelings of silencing, and self-doubt. This psychological toll can significantly deter individuals from actively participating in
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aimed at the tone of an argument instead of its factual or logical content in order to dismiss a person's argument. Ignoring the truth or falsity of a statement, a tone argument instead focuses on the emotion with which it is expressed. This is a logical fallacy because a person can be angry while
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The notion of tone policing became widespread in U.S. social activist circles by the mid-2010s. It was widely disseminated in a 2015 comic issued by the
Everyday Feminism website. Activists have argued that tone policing has been regularly employed against
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Additionally, it is noteworthy that educational institutions can be spaces where tone policing manifests, particularly when students advocate for change or raise concerns about
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still being rational. Nonetheless, a tone argument may be useful when responding to a statement that itself does not have rational content, such as an appeal to emotion.
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373:"Why Policing the Way Voices Sound Has to Stop"
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275:"Tone-Policing and the Assertion of Authority"
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349:"WHAT'S THE HARM IN TONE POLICING?"
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307:. Seal Press. p. 201.
172:"The Myth of Tone Policing"
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1568:Psychologist's fallacy
1505:Argument to moderation
1495:Argument from anecdote
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919:Suppressed correlative
819:Quoting out of context
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668:Denying the antecedent
1531:The Four Great Errors
1511:Argumentum ad populum
1500:Argument from silence
1204:Argumentum ad baculum
982:Faulty generalization
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135:systemic inequalities
110:The proliferation of
70:cis-hetero-patriarchy
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1341:Reductio ad Hitlerum
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1064:Moving the goalposts
929:Illicit transference
854:Begging the question
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1282:Parade of horribles
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1084:Syntactic ambiguity
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176:The Harvard Crimson
1368:Poisoning the well
1185:Proof by assertion
1160:Texas sharpshooter
1094:Questionable cause
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