Thursday, 7 May 2026

Jeremy Boering on rhetorical tricks

Why I don’t go along with the pro-Hamas, hate-Israel crowd: because I don’t buy the rhetorical tricks.

Which are, courtesy Grok:

Here is a summary (names only) of the 18 rhetorical techniques Jeremy Boreing discusses in the video:

1.  Pre-suasion

2.  Presupposition

3.  Assertion stacking

4.  Asymmetric skepticism

5.  Authority transfer

6.  Illusion of insight

7.  False consensus signal

8.  Epistemic closure

9.  Burden shifting

10.  Social proof

11.  Motivated reasoning

12.  Elaborated truth effect

13.  Thought-terminating phrase

14.  Framing

15.  Repetition

16.  Hedges

17.  Inversion

18.  Narrative-driven sales