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<blockquote data-quote="Athanasius" data-source="post: 1370859" data-attributes="member: 16809">Right, he who controls the language controls the conversation.&nbsp; Conservatives have been losing for decades because they keep trying to kick the ball through the left&#039;s ever shifting goalposts.What I do is start asking questions. Define &quot;racism.&quot; If 90% of interracial hate crimes are done by blacks, then aren&#039;t they racist too according to your standard?&quot; They&#039;ll retreat into to some form of intersectionality.&nbsp; Once I understand their moral underpinnings, I go after those. Who decided your standard is right? Why is it more valuable than mine?&nbsp; Usually the ground of their belief will be in majority rules or they&#039;ll gingerly appeal back to the Bible.&nbsp; They do it gingerly because they don&#039;t know anything about it other than a few verses and whatever nonsense they&#039;ve picked up from pop culture. Most often, they are atheistic and you&#039;ll get them back to realizing that they are just spouting their opinion. And then I ask why one ephemeral animal is telling another ephemeral animal what to think, who made you the arbiter of right and wrong, why do we have grounds to even trust what we think, and really why does anything at all matter anyway? I try to get them questioning their foundations, because they have been so conditioned through propaganda they never realize they don&#039;t have any.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Athanasius, post: 1370859, member: 16809"] Right, he who controls the language controls the conversation. Conservatives have been losing for decades because they keep trying to kick the ball through the left's ever shifting goalposts. What I do is start asking questions. Define "racism." If 90% of interracial hate crimes are done by blacks, then aren't they racist too according to your standard?" They'll retreat into to some form of intersectionality. Once I understand their moral underpinnings, I go after those. Who decided [I]your[/I] standard is right? Why is it more valuable than mine? Usually the ground of their belief will be in majority rules or they'll gingerly appeal back to the Bible. They do it gingerly because they don't know anything about it other than a few verses and whatever nonsense they've picked up from pop culture. Most often, they are atheistic and you'll get them back to realizing that they are just spouting their opinion. And then I ask why one ephemeral animal is telling another ephemeral animal what to think, who made you the arbiter of right and wrong, why do we have grounds to even trust what we think, and really why does anything at all matter anyway? I try to get them questioning their foundations, because they have been so conditioned through propaganda they never realize they don't have any. [/QUOTE]

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