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'''Mockery''' is not always a sign of a defect in the thing being mocked. The tactic of mocking someone or their work is multi-pronged.  
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'''Mockery''' is a kind of jeering or showing contempt by derision or parody, often in the form of a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous or satirical way.
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Mockery is not always a sign of a defect in the thing being mocked. The tactic of mocking someone or their work is multi-pronged.  
    
It is used to dismiss the person's work, so that others don't even take a look at it. Liberals always do this, so as to distract people from seeing the real facts. It's a variant of [[ad hominem]], like saying scientists who disagree with the "utterly objective" United Nations are "in the pay of Big Oil". (Sounds like the faun in the C.S. Lewis story being in the pay of the White Witch!)
 
It is used to dismiss the person's work, so that others don't even take a look at it. Liberals always do this, so as to distract people from seeing the real facts. It's a variant of [[ad hominem]], like saying scientists who disagree with the "utterly objective" United Nations are "in the pay of Big Oil". (Sounds like the faun in the C.S. Lewis story being in the pay of the White Witch!)
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