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> is almost a scissor concept

I was curious but can't seem to find much on that phrase except as a player-movement tactic in US Football.

Perhaps autocorrect-gone-wrong from something else?




It comes from this short story: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

Basically, a scissor statement is a series of words optimized to split a group of people along a novel faultline, and then make them fight.




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