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A version of this piece was originally published online by Psychology Today, but it was taken down within 24 hours. You can read a longer version on Medium.Here's a few more good ones from the Quillette article:
Brexistential fear: An irrational fear that Brexit will lead to the end of the world as we know it.See also:
Epistemological impugnment: A form of intellectual bullying that involves declaring or implying that a claim should not be believed, not on the basis of logic or evidence showing it to be false, but by tainting the source with real or imagined failings in some other area. This often manifests as unsubstantiated allegations and guilt-by-association.
Genetophobia: Fear of genetic explanations for human behaviors, competencies, traits, and preferences. Often manifests as blank slatism and environmental determinism.
Identity colonialism: The assumption that you have a better grasp of what's harmful to a marginalized group than members of that group.
Implicit ESP delusions: People afflicted by these delusions believe they can read others' minds. This belief is not explicitly articulated because it would sound silly if it was. How, then, can it be diagnosed? These delusions often manifest as accusations that someone else is "disingenuous," or insincere; also, that the accuser knows someone's "real" motivations.
Nazinoia: A delusional tendency to see Nazis as hiding behind ideas or practices one opposes, and by accusing anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders of being Nazis, fascists, white supremacists, or alt-right.
Occam's shoehorn: What you use to fit the data to your narrative, no matter how difficult.
Occam's trumpet: Ignoring all possible alternatives to "bias" as explanations for inequality and triumphantly proclaiming that bias is pervasive.
Reductio ad Hitlerum: Attributing ideas and arguments one opposes to Nazism, fascism, or white supremacy. Also known as Godwin's Law.
Trollusions: A pathological tendency to see those who bluntly disagree with you as trolls.
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