

You’re not wrong!
Drilling down, it’d be nice if there needs to be a way to capture the level of intentionality involved.
Ben Shapiro starts out with malice afore thought when makes up a guy, because he has a propaganda quota to hit. That’s a strawman.
A rationalist’s guy is an emergent phenomenon that arises from their cultic milieu (sometimes). They run with that misaprehention because of “smartest boy syndrome” and then you can’t tell em anything.
An example from a local Nashville institution:
https://www.400degreeshotchicken.com/s/order?item=77#14
I’d gladly help you out with it!