This feels like the right time to mention this one. My post:
Her reply:
I think the phrases ‘corrupt sector’ and ‘screw loose’ have very different connotations.
‘Corrupt sector --’ at least as I used it – implies cognitive biases and errors that tend to result in flawed and illogical processing of valid information; a powerful filter that tends to distort and result in erroneous conclusions.
'Screw loose," to me, is far more an accusation of a frank psychiatric disorder – not at all what I meant.
Sometimes, it isn’t the hive mind piling on a poster who holds minority opinions, but a poster’s predisposition toward victimhood that we see.