Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: April 28, 2024, 8:25 pm

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Right Wing Tactics
#1
Right Wing Tactics
One interesting tactic i have seen the right use of late whenever they try the whole "the Democrats want or believe " Democrat as an absolutist and exclusive  position on whatever they are accusing you of for example 

" Democrats are violent and are intolerant"   

When you point out many are not and violence is not exclusive position of the Democrats and is just as at home among Republicans. You are met with accusation of red herring because apparently pointing out the absolutist and exclusiveness of the statement above  is false is somehow not a counter according to them and is just a distraction despite dealing with the claim directly  .

Another one i have encountered is what i like too call the sample size essentially they take a small group of radicals then conflate it to an official democrat position. 

" Democrats want open borders"

Once again an absolutist and  exclusive statement because many Democrats don't want open borders ( and no wanting paths to citizenship for illegal immigrants  and wanting to abolish ICE does not mean open borders) and some Republicans want open borders as well so this idea it's a general Democrat position is refuted .
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

Reply
#2
RE: Right Wing Tactics
(October 30, 2018 at 8:26 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: an absolutist and exclusive position on whatever they are accusing you of for example 

We have to be careful not to use this tactic against Christians.
Reply
#3
RE: Right Wing Tactics
Fuck all xhristards.
Reply
#4
RE: Right Wing Tactics
(October 30, 2018 at 9:33 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Fuck all xhristards.

Over-the-top literary tropes often serve to shut down debate and may even encourage violence. 

For example if we say, "religion makes parents stay home and pray instead of taking their sick kids to the hospital," that's synecdoche. We use the term for the whole (religion) to refer to a tiny part (idiot American Christian anti-vaxxer-types). 

Or if we say, "science flies you to the moon but religion flies your planes into the World Trade Center," this is metonymy. Because it uses a large term (religion) to refer to something which is sometimes associated with that term (non-observant Muslim men enraged by violent US foreign policy). This over-simplification actually paralleled America's stupid reaction to 9-11 and allowed the government to give the hijackers all the political goals they aimed for, while still appearing tough.
Reply
#5
RE: Right Wing Tactics
If I thought that would shut up xhristards I'd start every sentence with it.
Reply
#6
RE: Right Wing Tactics
One really good example of the second tactic is using the fact that 35% of Dems support an open border while the majority  don't . Then trying to push it as a universal position without nuance. By their own logic i could take the 7% of Republican who support an open border and insist it as a universal position despite the majority rejecting it .
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

Reply
#7
RE: Right Wing Tactics
The problem with having a two party system is you're gonna get rather large generalizations for basically half your population.
"It's A or B" and everyone that wants "C" get's a cactus to the ass.
Caution Drama Queen
Reply
#8
RE: Right Wing Tactics
The right often act like they want to give someone a wedgie over the Internet.
Reply
#9
RE: Right Wing Tactics
If I'm not alarmed that a caravan of refugees is walking towards us, I must want to let them in the country with no vetting and I also must want them to spread diseases when they get here. And if I'm not against turning them all away, then I should house a refugee family in my house or I'm being a hypocrite....

Of course, I wouldn't mind a roommate who would put in a good day's work for their room and board, so it turns out that being willing to house a refugee is completely beside the point. Sigh.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
Reply
#10
RE: Right Wing Tactics
(October 31, 2018 at 9:34 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: If I'm not alarmed that a caravan of refugees is walking towards us, I must want to let them in the country with  no vetting and I also must want them to spread diseases when they get here. And if I'm not against turning them all away, then I should house a refugee family in my house or I'm being a hypocrite....

Of course, I wouldn't mind a roommate who would put in a good day's work for their room and board, so it turns out that being willing to house a refugee is completely beside the point. Sigh.


If dem's should be willing to house a refugee, repub's should be willing to house an unwanted baby.
Caution Drama Queen
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Anti-immigration..does Right wing still fools masses? WinterHold 106 4819 July 16, 2023 at 1:54 pm
Last Post: BrianSoddingBoru4
  UK general election - right wing Conservative party wins large majority Duty 30 1517 December 16, 2019 at 6:12 am
Last Post: Duty
  Trump and his right-wing blowjob supporters. Jehanne 3 740 April 22, 2018 at 2:36 pm
Last Post: Jehanne
  Even Right Wing Polls Can't Prop Up The WLB Minimalist 2 1103 May 30, 2017 at 8:42 pm
Last Post: chimp3
  Do extreme right wing males have an inferiority complex NuclearEnergy 38 9070 May 12, 2017 at 11:12 pm
Last Post: Nanny
  Argument against the death penalty by a r-wing conservative Catholic_Lady 0 689 December 6, 2016 at 2:12 pm
Last Post: Catholic_Lady
  Income Inequality and Left Wing Hypocricy Neo-Scholastic 17 3369 September 28, 2016 at 4:02 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  It Seems That The Money-Wing of the GOP has Minimalist 5 1162 February 22, 2016 at 4:01 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  Find What is Wrong with This Right Wing Article Shining_Finger 8 2698 November 8, 2015 at 9:01 am
Last Post: GUBU
  And The Right-Wing Blogosphere Begins Its Melt Down Minimalist 6 2094 September 26, 2015 at 8:44 pm
Last Post: Iroscato



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)