Leftist debating tactics
As I remarked yesterday, leftists seem to have a talent for avoiding exchanging ideas. The seem to eschew debate and embrace intimidation and harassment as we see here.
"Some readers of HuffingtonPost.com have initiated a new wave of harassing phone calls to Swift Boat veterans who questioned John Kerry's military record in the 2004 campaign -- and the website's proprietors remained ignorant of it for days, despite repeated complaints...
After the contact information was posted on the Huffington Post, the harassing calls increased in frequency. Saturday afternoon Lonsdale received another call, "congratulating" him for "ruining our country." In the early hours of Sunday morning, Van Odell received three calls, he told TAS, at 1:47 a.m., 1:48, and 1:50. A man calmly told him, "I want to know why you lied about John Kerry... Traitors must die. We will get you. You can't get away with this." Then his call descended into cursing, at which point Odell said he hung up on him. Odell received another round of calls around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon. He has turned his phone off so that his six-year-old grandson could not pick up the calls." (emphasis added)
Klaus Rohrich of the Canada Free Press dug a little deeper into this phenomonon after he recieved letters from liberals in response to his article debunking global warming.
"More and more, the Left is engaging in this type of debating tactic, leaving the topic to be debated in favor of an ad hominem attack on one’s opponent. This wouldn’t be too serious had it not found its way into the body politic in most Western nations today. Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Monte Solberg recently commented in parliament that today’s immigrants were much more likely to require assistance with language, since the majority of immigrants to Canada currently originate from countries that do not have a common Greco-Roman tradition of language. To hear the firestorm emanating from the opposition benches you’d think Solberg had walked into parliament in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood. There was nothing of a spurious nature in what Solberg said; he was stating a fact. But the opposition parties, hoping to make Solberg and the Conservative Party look bad, accused him of racism because of stating a simple fact."
Whether the issue being discussed is immigration, taxation, or roads, leftists refuse to debate the facts of the issue. Instead they debate with their "feelings". Feelings are fine, don't get me wrong, but they are a poor substitute for fact!
If the leftists were smart, they would read Mr. Rohrich's conclusion and learn from it:
"This probably explains why the Left is losing ground politically in most Western countries today, as the public at large realizes that real debate of issues has been cut off in favor of Looney tunes ideologies rammed down people’s throats. Rather than counter right-wing arguments with logic and reason, the Left has become so certain of its infallibility that any argument can be reduced to a mere word, such as racist, sexists, homophobe and in the minds of the paganites, idiot."
Will they take this information to heart or will they continue to try to shout down the opposition or try to intimidate the opposition into silence? Time will tell, but based on my friends experience this week, I fear that the they will not. Thus they will continue to lose elections.
"Some readers of HuffingtonPost.com have initiated a new wave of harassing phone calls to Swift Boat veterans who questioned John Kerry's military record in the 2004 campaign -- and the website's proprietors remained ignorant of it for days, despite repeated complaints...
After the contact information was posted on the Huffington Post, the harassing calls increased in frequency. Saturday afternoon Lonsdale received another call, "congratulating" him for "ruining our country." In the early hours of Sunday morning, Van Odell received three calls, he told TAS, at 1:47 a.m., 1:48, and 1:50. A man calmly told him, "I want to know why you lied about John Kerry... Traitors must die. We will get you. You can't get away with this." Then his call descended into cursing, at which point Odell said he hung up on him. Odell received another round of calls around 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon. He has turned his phone off so that his six-year-old grandson could not pick up the calls." (emphasis added)
Klaus Rohrich of the Canada Free Press dug a little deeper into this phenomonon after he recieved letters from liberals in response to his article debunking global warming.
"More and more, the Left is engaging in this type of debating tactic, leaving the topic to be debated in favor of an ad hominem attack on one’s opponent. This wouldn’t be too serious had it not found its way into the body politic in most Western nations today. Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Monte Solberg recently commented in parliament that today’s immigrants were much more likely to require assistance with language, since the majority of immigrants to Canada currently originate from countries that do not have a common Greco-Roman tradition of language. To hear the firestorm emanating from the opposition benches you’d think Solberg had walked into parliament in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood. There was nothing of a spurious nature in what Solberg said; he was stating a fact. But the opposition parties, hoping to make Solberg and the Conservative Party look bad, accused him of racism because of stating a simple fact."
Whether the issue being discussed is immigration, taxation, or roads, leftists refuse to debate the facts of the issue. Instead they debate with their "feelings". Feelings are fine, don't get me wrong, but they are a poor substitute for fact!
If the leftists were smart, they would read Mr. Rohrich's conclusion and learn from it:
"This probably explains why the Left is losing ground politically in most Western countries today, as the public at large realizes that real debate of issues has been cut off in favor of Looney tunes ideologies rammed down people’s throats. Rather than counter right-wing arguments with logic and reason, the Left has become so certain of its infallibility that any argument can be reduced to a mere word, such as racist, sexists, homophobe and in the minds of the paganites, idiot."
Will they take this information to heart or will they continue to try to shout down the opposition or try to intimidate the opposition into silence? Time will tell, but based on my friends experience this week, I fear that the they will not. Thus they will continue to lose elections.
posted by The Lady Logician at
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