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- Embed this noticeIf you point this out to them, the more erudite ones will vomit literature in their philosophical vein at you, saying that they prefer this or that philosopher's interpretation of their core ideology. They will drown you in a sea of rhetoric and demand that you engage with their deranged theories and appropriated vocabulary. They will not even entertain your arguments at all unless you are willing to argue with them in their own language, where the very meanings of common words (e.g. "critical") are rooted from the start in a way that supports their ideology. Because they will only accept arguments from their own school of literature, this not only means that you are starved of the argumentative tools that would allow you to meaningfully express ideas alternative to theirs, but it also means that you waste a lot of your own time filling your brain with crap that you couldn't be less interested in.
The less erudite ones will simply scream at you for not being like them, perhaps along the lines of your sexual orientation, gender identity, or racial and cultural background. They will shut their ears to anything you say, having an endless body of reinforcing literature with which to justify their ad hominem, but being often too lazy to even employ it beyond namedropping basic concepts ("degenerate", "privileged.")