{"id":11357,"date":"2010-08-30T18:43:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T18:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/the-liberal-debating-manual\/"},"modified":"2010-08-30T18:43:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T18:43:35","slug":"the-liberal-debating-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/the-liberal-debating-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Debating Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">From the <em>The Liberal Debating Manual<\/em> (San Francisco:&#0160;PeeCee Publishers, 2010):<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">No matter what position your conservative opponent takes on any issue, choose one or more epithets from the following list and label him with it:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Racist, bigot, fascist, sexist, intolerant, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Mix and match, and repeat as necessary.&#0160; Never ever engage conservative arguments.&#0160; To do so is to admit that your enemy is a rational being with a point of view worth considering.&#0160; Never credit a conservative with reason, moral decency or intellectual insight.&#0160; The smear is extremely effective if repeated often enough.&#0160;&#0160; Never miss an opportunity to play the race card.&#0160; Insult and demean.&#0160; Tea-Partiers are &#39;teabaggers.&#39;&#0160; If they reply in kind, act shocked and insist on the double-standard: we are morally and intellectually superior people while you are scum.&#0160; How can you object when we call you what you are: bigots, racists, scumbags?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Keep your eye on the prize and never forget that winning is all that counts.&#0160; The end justifies the means.&#0160; Example <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/opinions\/2010\/08\/30\/2010-08-30_drowning_out_the_hate_hustlers.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">here.<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the The Liberal Debating Manual (San Francisco:&#0160;PeeCee Publishers, 2010): No matter what position your conservative opponent takes on any issue, choose one or more epithets from the following list and label him with it: Racist, bigot, fascist, sexist, intolerant, homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic. Mix and match, and repeat as necessary.&#0160; Never ever engage conservative arguments.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/the-liberal-debating-manual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Liberal Debating Manual&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}