Tone policing

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What Wikipedia says

A tone argument or tone policing is an informal fallacy or rhetorical tactic in which someone focuses on the tone or emotional expression of an argument rather than its factual or logical content (thus called appeal to tone or appeal to confidence when it's the case).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Tone policing”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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