RE: Milo Yiannopoulos; the man twitter banned got a book deal. Currently #2 on Amazon.
December 30, 2016 at 9:37 am
I think the approach only works if you have at least some facts and some reasonable points to make, but it's more important to have the confidence to stay on the attack when you don't. Most people won't stay toe-to-toe with an aggressive debater for long because when they are stumped they feel the pressure to admit it, while the aggressive person will find some way to stay on the attack, even if it's by shifting the discussion or using whatever dishonest tactic is needed to keep the momentum on their side. The vulgarity and vitriol are tools --or perhaps more adequately, weapons-- that he can use to throw an opponent off.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
