David Horowitz/reparations for slavery

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Mar 3 11:20:57 PST 2001


Dennis wrote:


>All the above is a long-winded way of saying that the right is easy to
>debate. Most of them are idiots.

In my experience, the most frustrating thing about debating them is that they'll just lie outright. It's pretty hard to debate opponents like that. If you call them the liars that they are, you risk alienating the audience. If you correct them, you risk sounding like a dweeb. They'll say things like "A flat tax wouldn't be a giveaway to the rich," and you say, "Well, yes it is," and quote some numbers, and it risks looking like a he said, she said thing that defies conclusion.

Doug



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