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by Chris Banescu –\nHow do you know when you have successfully argued and defended your position when debating with leftists or progressives on Facebook or other online forums (or even face-to-face)?<\/p>\n
by Chris Banescu –
\nHow do you know when you have successfully argued and defended your position when debating with leftists or progressives on Facebook or other online forums (or even face-to-face)?<\/p>\n
Look for these telling signs (not necessarily in this exact order):<\/p>\n
1. They call you an \u201cextremist, radical, racist, Teabagger, heartless capitalist, or FoxNews cultist.\u201d<\/p>\n
2. They declare that \u201cyou’re a \u2018hater\u2019 or you\u2019re angry.\u201d<\/p>\n
3. They ignore the facts and evidence you present, and challenge your \u201cmotivations\u201d instead. (Note, you are not allowed to question their motivations.)<\/p>\n
4. They accuse you of \u201cinsulting\u201d any liberal, progressive, or leftist that you criticize, and remind you that it\u2019s \u201crude\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n
5. They question your intelligence, experience, education, ethnic background, and\/or religious beliefs.<\/p>\n
6. They denounce you as \u201cintolerant and judgmental.\u201d <\/p>\n
7. They demand that you \u201cget off your high horse.\u201d<\/p>\n
8. They claim that you \u201clack empathy for others\u201d, that you\u2019re \u201cselfish\u201d or \u201cevil.\u201d<\/p>\n
9. They accuse you of not loving ordinary people, and hating the poor, the children, the elderly, and the disabled.<\/p>\n
10. They denounce you for not being a \u201ctrue\u201d Christian.<\/p>\n
11. They insist that Christianity proclaims and supports socialism and communism.<\/p>\n
12. They tell you to shut up<\/em>!<\/p>\n 13. They condemn you for judging others. They lecture you that Christians are nor allowed to judge others. (Think about that judgmental accusation for a second… Ironic, isn’t it?)<\/p>\n 14. They become enraged and call you angry and hateful again when you apply their own standards of judgment to their own comments and opinions.<\/p>\n 15. They blame you for being belligerent and hard-headed.<\/p>\n 16. They\u2019re outraged that you continue to speak\/post and stand your ground.<\/p>\n 17. They insist they\u2019re not progressives or leftists, despite the evidence you provided to the contrary.<\/p>\n 18. They declare themselves \u201cmoderates\u201d and call you a \u201cright-wing extremist.\u201d<\/p>\n 19. They presume to know your mind and heart, and tell you what you think and why.<\/p>\n 20. When you expose their fallacies and logically defend your arguments with more objective information, they quickly change the subject or suddenly claim that they\u2019re too busy to waste time with you.<\/p>\n 21. They almost immediately proceed to misrepresent your actual views on an entirely new issue, attempting to distract and place you on the defensive. They assert erroneous opinions and ascribe them to you; then demand that you explain yourself.<\/p>\n 22. When you ignore this diversionary tactic, they accuse you of being too stupid or cowardly to answer.<\/p>\n 23. When you stay on topic, they pretend that you\u2019re the one who misunderstood what they were saying and doing. They tell you that you can\u2019t debate logically.<\/p>\n 24. They complain that they can\u2019t tolerate you any longer. (See note 6 above\u2026 Yes, the irony is lost on them!)<\/p>\n 25. They de-friend or block you from Facebook to prevent future interactions with you. (De-friend means they are very annoyed. Block means they really despise you and fear your very presence anywhere on Facebook. They run and hide to avoid you permanently.)<\/p>\n These tactics indicate that many leftists and progressives are not interested in debating with those with whom they disagree. They emote instead of reason. They focus on personalities rather than principles. They denounce, they don\u2019t persuade. They don\u2019t engage the ideas. Instead, they attack, obfuscate, impugn, accuse, name-call, belittle, insult, abuse, and defame anyone who disagrees with them or challenges their beliefs.<\/p>\n You are not their neighbor, but their foe.<\/p>\n __________________________________________ by Chris Banescu – How do you know when you have successfully argued and defended your position when debating with leftists or progressives on Facebook or other online forums (or even face-to-face)? Look for these telling signs (not necessarily in this exact order): 1. They call you an \u201cextremist, radical, racist, Teabagger, heartless capitalist, or … [read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,11,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-leftism","category-wisdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orthodoxnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOriginally published on American Thinker<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"