How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

by Ben Shapiro

There is no way to convince someone that you don’t hate him or her.

point out that throwing around accusations without evidence makes your opponent a piece of garbage. The truth is that your opponent, who labels you a racist without evidence, is the actual racist: it is he who waters down the term racism until it is meaningless by labeling any argument with which he disagrees racist.

You know he’s going to call you a racist, because he always calls his opponents racist.

hit him first by pointing out his vicious tactic.

Piers ...

Alex Jones,

Larry Pratt of Gun Owners of America,

clutched at his pearls.

hammered home the point:

anybody who disagrees with your position is absurd, idiotic, and doesn’t care about the dead kids in Sandy Hook.

you turn around and

that say I’m bullying you for saying that. It’s absurd...

wheel out

gambit

cynical ploy,

Rule #4: Frame the debate.

buzzwords

crock,

stifle

neuter those buzzwords quickly,

You can’t argue against empty terms.

don’t accept the premises of thei...

why marriage

should be redefined, and how same-sex marriage will strengthen the institution.

forcing the left to debate within frameworks they dislike – is useful on virtually every front.

Sarah Palin

Mitt Romney

Dick ...

Rule #5: Spot Inconsistencies in the Left’s Arguments.

very few people on the left will acknowledge their actual agenda,

Leftists prefer to argue half-measures in which they don’t truly believe.

Your goal is to make the left admit once and for all what they believe about policy by exposing those inconsistencies.