Straw Character: Difference between revisions

A strawman can have pretty much any ideological stance, with political orand religious stanceones being the most common. Why bother addressing the real issues of, for example, firearm-ownership advocates, when you can instead portray them all as bearded, racist lunatics ranting about black helicopters and wanting to own their own nuclear warheads? And so it goes with other examples: capitalists literally worship the bottom line and would step over their own mothers for profit; liberals are all secret communists aiming to destroy morality; conservatives are bigoted, gun-toting money-grubbers; scientists shake their fist at God while plotting to surpass him; the religious are uneducated, superstitious madmenmaniacs; feminists want to kill all men; and so on. This is not to say that such extremists don't actually exist, but the straw character presents extreme or minority views as the ''typical'' beliefs of a group rather than those of a tiny subset of it.