When you bring up an outside example to knock it down it's called a strawman.

Sheesh you're stupid.

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That is incorrect.

Using an example or metaphor to refute someones argument is NOT strawmanning.

https://owl.excelsior.edu/argument-and-critical-thinking/logical-fallacies/logical-fallacies-straw-man/

Shi shi, what they're saying isn't a straw man. If anything it's a a red herring, but it seems valid in the discussion