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Opinionhaver@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Name for this kind of slogan is a “Thought-terminating clishé”

A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language—often passing as folk wisdom—intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point.

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