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> ah there’s our miscommunication!

No. You’re clearly arguing in bad faith, and I’m not falling for it. And I’m calling you out on it. Deflecting is the tactic of a coward.

[Sealioning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning)

> **Sealioning** (also **sea-lioning** and **sea lioning**) is a type of [trolling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_\(slang\) "Troll (slang)") or [harassment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassment "Harassment")that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#cite_note-Poland2016-1)[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#cite_note-MCL-2)[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#cite_note-OX-3)[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#cite_note-RJB-4) It may take the form of "incessant, [bad-faith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_faith "Bad faith") invitations to engage in debate",[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#cite_note-TPP-5) and has been likened to a  [denial-of-service attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack "Denial-of-service attack") targeted at human beings.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#cite_note-Johnson-6) The term originated with a 2014 strip of the [webcomic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcomic "Webcomic") *[Wondermark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wondermark "Wondermark")* by David Malki,[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#cite_note-MW-7) which *[The Independent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Independent "The Independent")* called "the most apt description of Twitter you'll ever see".[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning#cite_note-MC-8)

[Just asking questions](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions)

> **Just asking questions** (also known as **JAQ**ing off, or as emojis: "🤔🤔🤔"[\[1\]](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions#cite_note-1)) is a way of attempting to make wild accusations acceptable (and hopefully not legally actionable) by framing them as questions rather than statements. It shifts the [burden of proof](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof "Burden of proof") to one's opponent; rather than laboriously having to prove that all politicians are [reptoid](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Reptilian "Reptilian") scum, one can pull out [one single odd piece of evidence](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/One_single_proof "One single proof") and force the opponent to explain why the evidence is wrong.

The tactic is closely related to [loaded questions](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Loaded_question "Loaded question") or [leading questions](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Leading_question "Leading question") (which are usually employed when using it), [Gish Gallops](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop "Gish Gallop") (when asking a huge number of rapid-fire questions without regard for the answers), and [Argumentum ad nauseam](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_nauseam "Argumentum ad nauseam") (when asking the same question over and over in an attempt to overwhelm refutations).


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