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I find the 'tone' argument terribly weak at the best of times. My 'tone' might be dismissive, or it might be English, or it might be, I wasn't concentrating all that hard when I wrote that short off the cuff response, or it might genuinely be I think you're an asshat. Complaining that you don't like the 'tone' of something written often seems to come hand in hand with 'I don't want to try to respond to the point you made so I'm going to complain about the way you said it.'

I very rarely see the 'tone' argument invoked in such a way as 'you what a what now? That doesn't quite make sense or I don't think you meant to say that'.