Silly Conservative arguing tricks
This is from Actor212 (whom I know from the Majority Report blog.) Nice guy, funny too. I think he is really someone famous like Tim Robbins, but he will never admit it. (see how I pump up the celebrity factor? I'm learning from the our pop culture.)
His blog is Simply Left Behind .
An object lesson, forwarded to me by one of the ten smartest men in America (and a liberal):
Liberal: The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: No, it doesn’t.
Liberal: Yes, it does. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: What about Guam? What about that Guam, huh? Or the
Virgin Islands?
Liberal: Those are territories, not states. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: Oh, so you’re saying those don’t count?
Liberal: Yes.
Conservative: Oh, so the people there don’t count? They’re not good enough, huh? I thought you liberals wanted everybody to be counted.
Liberal: No, I said the territories don’t count as states. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: You’re really something, you know that? You liberals are always going on about how all of us conservatives are racists, how we don’t care about anybody but people who look like us. But you don’t even want to count the blacks who live in Guam as Americans.
Liberal: First of all, I never said all conservatives are racists.
Conservative: Yes, you did.
Liberal: No, I didn’t.
Conservative: Michael Moore says it.
Liberal: I’ve never heard him say that.
Conservative: Yes, he does! He most definitely does!
Liberal: Look, I don’t know what he says. That’s beside the point. And the people in Guam “count,” whatever that means. I don’t even know who lives in Guam; I don’t know the first thing about Guam. I’m just saying Guam isn’t a state it’s a territory. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: What about Puerto Rico?
Liberal: What?
Conservative: What about Puerto Rico, huh? You love all those Mexicans coming across the border stealing our jobs you must LOVE Puerto Rico, right?
Read the rest here:
http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-conservatives-argue.html
I wrote a more serious take on this last December called How to Talk to wing nuts
His blog is Simply Left Behind .
An object lesson, forwarded to me by one of the ten smartest men in America (and a liberal):
Liberal: The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: No, it doesn’t.
Liberal: Yes, it does. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: What about Guam? What about that Guam, huh? Or the
Virgin Islands?
Liberal: Those are territories, not states. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: Oh, so you’re saying those don’t count?
Liberal: Yes.
Conservative: Oh, so the people there don’t count? They’re not good enough, huh? I thought you liberals wanted everybody to be counted.
Liberal: No, I said the territories don’t count as states. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: You’re really something, you know that? You liberals are always going on about how all of us conservatives are racists, how we don’t care about anybody but people who look like us. But you don’t even want to count the blacks who live in Guam as Americans.
Liberal: First of all, I never said all conservatives are racists.
Conservative: Yes, you did.
Liberal: No, I didn’t.
Conservative: Michael Moore says it.
Liberal: I’ve never heard him say that.
Conservative: Yes, he does! He most definitely does!
Liberal: Look, I don’t know what he says. That’s beside the point. And the people in Guam “count,” whatever that means. I don’t even know who lives in Guam; I don’t know the first thing about Guam. I’m just saying Guam isn’t a state it’s a territory. The USA has fifty states.
Conservative: What about Puerto Rico?
Liberal: What?
Conservative: What about Puerto Rico, huh? You love all those Mexicans coming across the border stealing our jobs you must LOVE Puerto Rico, right?
Read the rest here:
http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/2006/07/how-conservatives-argue.html
I wrote a more serious take on this last December called How to Talk to wing nuts
8 Comments:
Alas, I find it more frustrating than funny...
I hear ya. Be sure to see my answers to all your Superman questions on your blog.
I'm still using "How to Talk to Wing Nuts" and have had some success with it. Just knowing that the person I'm talking to is going to try and switch tracks / change subject / divert attention away from the original argument has given me the upper hand at times. I liken it to driving a car that has an alignment problem causing the front end to pull to the right so that all you have to do is keep yanking that steering wheel to the left to maintain a straight course down the road.
Be sure to see my answers to all your Superman questions on your blog.
Oh dear. I don't think I'm quite entirely convinced...
gee- i didn't realize you could talk to wingnuts at all. thanks for the tips :)
Actually it is very hard. It is more like talking AT wingnuts.
I'm not Tim Robbins.
But Tim and I go a lonnnnnnng way back.
AH HA! Then you must be Susan Sarandon! I love your work!
I just lent my copy of Bull Durham to two people who had never seen it! (They were kids and one was from the UK)
Drop me a line the next time you are in SF we can talk politics and ACTING! Wheeee!
P.S. I won't tell anyone who you are.
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