I see this a lot on the internet, twitter etc. As an example say some random democrat is in a debate with a republican. Whatever the topic was, the democrat might say something along the lines of 'anyway you're probably just a racist so I don't care what you say...'. It's where the opposing party 'picks' one or more of the worst possible cases about 'you', factual or not, and just uses them to paint you as being 'worthless' or at least not worth debating with, ergo they win the argument. Another example might be someone trying to describe their belief in a 9/11 conspiracy. The opposing side might say 'yeah and you believe the moon landings were fake and JFK etc etc'. The conspiracy theorist may or may not hold those beliefs, but the opponent in this case just paints the picture that they do so they can be safely dismissed. Does that make sense? is there a word for when people do that?
I'm looking for either a single word or phrase that would describe either someone or the action of dismissing someone's opinions as something "socially unpopular", without giving any reasoning why, either just to spite them, because they have a poor counter-argument, have been backed into a corner, or something similar.  For example, someone who supports something politically incorrect (like, say, stronger gun control or help for male domestic abuse) might have their views dismissed as racist or sexist or liberal without actually acknowledging and debating against them, thus labeling the former as something they might not be.  I was talking to a friend earlier about politics, and she complained about Germany's immigration problem. She said one issue was that many politicians that try to support stronger immigration laws would immediately be shot down as racist or a nazi and forced to resign, instead of being presented with counter-arguments. Regardless of whether you agree with them or not, what would describe that?  EDIT: Forgot to specify -- the word or phrase I'm looking for would be used in an informal context. And to address further questions, to be used when the person's opinion has legitimate worth and isn't just "being racist" etc, i.e. the dismisser is incorrect, and is only making these accusations because they can't argue further. (Added emphasis to the last sentence of the first paragraph)
Downcasting in Java Upcasting is allowed in Java, however downcasting gives a compile error.   The compile error can be removed by adding a cast but would anyway break at the runtime.   In this case why Java allows downcasting if it cannot be executed at the runtime? Is there any practical use for this concept?   public class demo {   public static void main(String a[]) {       B b = (B) new A(); // compiles with the cast,                           // but runtime exception - java.lang.ClassCastException   } }  class A {   public void draw() {     System.out.println("1");   }    public void draw1() {     System.out.println("2");   } }  class B extends A {   public void draw() {     System.out.println("3");   }   public void draw2() {     System.out.println("4");   } } By taking courses, I have learned topic A. Through self-studying and discussion with others, I have explored topic B.    I also study topic A outside the classroom. What I want to emphasis is that topic B is not in my curriculum, but I study it on my own. Extracurricular activities can include both activities contributed to academic study although outside the normal curriculum, but also activities not contributed to academic study such as sports, volunteer work, etc. I want to emphasis the former activities. Do you say "outside classes", when mentioning study by yourself, i.e.      Outside classes, I have explored B.      If it were you, how would you rewrite the first quote for the same       meaning?    Thanks! What is a socket? Change Gmail account to make in-app purchase? Brightness changes while "Adaptive Brightness" is disabled in Windows 8.1/10 with Intel HD Graphics The brightness changes with the colors displayed on the screen on my Lenovo Thinkpads with Intel HD Graphics. Light colors make the screen brighter, dark make it darker. Same behavior in Windows 8.1 and 10.  The "adaptive brightness" feature in Windows is disabled. 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Williams also states that he saw   both Smith and Jones with Cooper the day of the killing and that either Smith or Jones must have killed him. Can you determine who the murderer was if one of the three men is guilty, the two innocent men are telling the truth, but the statements of the guilty man may or may not be true?   When i was young, i used to solve such puzzles graphically, drawing vertices and arrows and excluding impossible cases. But now i want to do that formally. How can i express this puzzle definition using proposition calculus notation, inference and truth tables? Or, in other words, when you stumble upon a logical puzzle and you want to solve it formally, what is your algorithm?  What i tried. I extracted several propositions from the definition:   S: didn't kill C S: J knew C S: W disliked C J: didn't kill C J: J didn't know C J: out of town W: didn't kill C W: S with C W: J with C   There are 3 groups of propositions, two of them are always true, the third may contain either true or false statements. Let be $A = 1 \land 2 \land 3$, $B = 4 \land 5 \land 6$, $C = 7 \land 8 \land 9$. Then from  by using truth tables and Karnaugh maps i deduct that the statement “some two of A, B, C are true” looks like $(A \land B \land \neg C) \lor (A \land \neg B \land C) \lor (\neg A \land B \land C)$. But wait, “may or may not be true” means that all statements might be true, not that at least one is false (hence the NAND is not appropriate here). So the sentence should be reformulated as “at least some two of A, B, C are true”. Am i going in the right direction? Working in a group blender project Me and my team are new to blender, we are now planning for a small project. 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