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Requests for nouns, adjectives, or phrases that answer questions of the form “What do you call a person who . . . ?” Although these are not necessarily negative, they are often used pejoratively as “words that wound” against persons or acts one disapproves of, as in “racial epithets”.

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Term for a person who disagrees but says the same thing

I would suggest the phrase "re-contextualizing." Basically, the person engaging in this behavior is someone who has a very rigid frame of reference or worldview, and is unable to perform simple abs …
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What do you call a person who tries to be the first to answer and/or answer the most questio...

"rep whore" is certainly closest to the mark. They're usually part of a larger tribe that I call a "kangaroo cabal," which is typically made up of half people who have absolutely nothing better to d …
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