Difference between revisions of "Liberal tricks"

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Here are some common liberal tricks that many people fall for:

1. insert a liberal assumption into a question, as illustrated by the classic "when did you stop beating your wife?!"
2. distract and disrupt reasoned discussion, as in stating irrelevant claims, inconsequential tales of personal experience, or false outrage
3. claim expertise beyond one's area of expertise, as in a "Dr." or professor implying that he is an expert in an area beyond his specialty
4. make arguments that have superficial appeal to the dimwitted, but are actually nonsensical and probably not believed by the liberal himself^[1]
5. pretend that liberals do not have a political point of view, but are just being reasonable^[2]
6. exaggerate praise for fellow liberals;^[3] pretend that atheism equals intelligence
7. in court decisions, hold in favor of the conservative side by using liberal reasons that will be cited for liberal outcomes in future cases^[4]
8. liberals befriend you so you should become liberal (why don't they become conservative?)
9. "live and let live!" except when it comes to praying aloud in school, keeping the money you earn, building on your own property, and every other liberal issue
10. it doesn't hurt to try! (In reference to drugs, alcohol, and other immoral behaviors such as pre-marital sex, worshipping many gods/no gods, homosexuality, or abortion)
11. everyone else supposedly believes in something so it must be right
12. your parents aren't cool; Hollywood values are cool; professor values are brilliant; blindly follow your government
13. there is a shortage of everything we want
14. prayer is for dummies, or is antiquated
15. kids are getting smarter than old folks
16. smear your adversary with a highly offensive accusation or insinuation
17. call someone a racist if he criticizes a liberal having a different skin color
18. demonize conservatives and pretend they don't care about regular people
19. if you don't like it (something offensive on television), don't watch it (but they don't seem to go for if you don't like whales being killed, don't watch them being killed).
20. the poor are blameless because they have nothing; the rich are to blame because they have everything.
21. accusing conservatives of libel, but forgetting that truth is the perfect defense against libel.
22. to discount other point of views, liberals use comparisons of other known "wrong actions" to justify their supposed correct stance. ^[5]

(please add to list)

Example

Here is an example of an actual attempt at liberal tricks that was posted on this very page:

This article, and many others on a similar line, are a sad demonstration of incipient mental illness. Andrew Schlafly appears to be an educated man - after all, he edited a legal journal which was later edited by Barack Obama (I assume that Andy's tenure wasn't a result of affirmative action in favour of the narrow minded and the bigoted) - yet his denunciations of 'liberalism' get ever wilder and more paranoid as his definition of that beknighted state become ever more encompassing.

The above example (by a non-American) attempts to smear a conservative by implying that he has a mental illness, reflecting liberal trick #15 above. To someone unfamiliar with liberal tricks, this can be upsetting and intimidating. But once one realizes that this is a basic trick from the liberal playbook, its silliness and ineffectiveness becomes obvious. The liberal's foolish tactic is then revealed for what it really is.

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