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"Thought-Terminating Cliches" (lemmy.world)
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[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Believe A is true. And believe B is true. Also believe A and B cannot both be true at the same time. That is cognitive dissonance.

In this case it is "short circuited" aka bypassed by saying something dismissive. Doing so suggests there is nothing that can be done about the circumstances behind the dissonant ideas, so it's not worth thinking about.