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... friends of a friend on Facebook who challenged my claims that the tea party is inherently racist. To give you a background, I've debated fucking right-wingers on the internet since the mid 1990's and have a toolbelt of sorts that I routinely use to strike hard and eviscerate their claims, generally hitting on the "show me your evidence" button and following up to dismantle their inevitable attempts to pass off opinion as fact, shriek insults in place of a rational argument, and proclaim GOP propaganda as sacred truth. I am a persistent son-of-a-bitch who will drive my opponents back to the Great Wall of China if that's what it takes when I have the truth behind me.
The first example was an individual who loudly objected to a calm discussion on FB between my friend and I about the racist motives of the tea party. He began hurling a lot of "I don't see any reason to malign these poor righteous people" type claims, and when presented with example after example after example of bona fide evidence showing the tea party to be guilty of racist statements/signs/slogans was pushed back into a corner. Another individual in the discussion - who had actually attended TP rallies, unlike this defender - backed me up, and stated he'd heard the racial remarks firsthand. No, no, the defender insisted - couldn't be true. Wasn't valid. He refused to acknowledge it. He kept proclaiming the examples I'd shown of racism to be "aberrations" which weren't representative of the movement. I nailed his ass to the wall by inquiring what burden of proof he would accept to acknowledge the tea party was racist; what level of evidence we could both agree would be sufficient to establish this fact. He ran away from that, publicly stating he wasn't going to let me define the rope I'd use to hang him with, knowing that the moment I got him to define what would be acceptable proof I would then provide said proof and his ass would be in a sling; game over. This is what these people do, folks: they RUN from the argument (usually with a lot of sneering about how it's not worth their time). When they recite their bullshit claims and are challenged on them, they disappear. This is why every one of these bastards needs to be challenged on EVERY SINGLE FACT they ever attempt to produce. Republicans will lie. They will lie, and lie, and lie, and lie, and are probably not even aware of lying. And I don't engage them in debates to convince them to come over to my side (a lost cause; all that happens when their BS is disproven is that they become even more angry about liberals and even more determined to endlessly chant said BS over and over), but rather to show them that liberals like me will strike them hard and fast, and rub their own noses in their claims, so they'd better watch out because they'll be held accountable.
The second example was a lovely tea partying housewife who elected to start squawking in the same thread that I was an idiot and was unfairly judging these poor people; slandering them as racists for no reason. She attempted to boil the multiple pieces of evidence of racism on the TP I'd provided down into ONE person holding ONE racist sign. Again, this is what these folks do - either they don't comprehend the issues and misrepresent the facts, or they deliberately lie. I invited her to debunk the evidence I'd provided about racism in that movement, warned her I'd be fact-checking her claims, and informed her that her tirades and insults were irrelevant compared to the value of the proof that she was up against. I told her to address the issues with a reasonable response, and stated when she'd done so we would next be discussing the documented FACT of the white supremacists attracted to the tea party movement - contrary to her fairy tale claims that it's just a nice bunch of concerned citizens from all walks of life. As in the first example, that was enough for this poor soul. Gone from the discussion. Too much to handle. Probably went off and whined about those know-it-all elitist liberals (and I make no bones about the fact that if you are a dumb fucker who listens to and swallows GOP propaganda, then - yes, I AM superior to you, you piece of shit).
I am always confident in the righteousness of my views, but never more confident than when I put those views to the test, head-to-head against right-wingers. I don't spend a huge amount of time debating these imbeciles, but when I do I extract every ounce of flesh and blood, and batter them into defeat. Time and time again I have seen them lie, and run, and evade, and dismiss what they can't handle, and it only serves to strengthen the foundation of what I believe in. On that note I suppose these poor misbegotten individuals serve some purpose after all...
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