How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them Quotes

“The left is expert at framing debates. They have buzzwords they use to direct the debate toward unwinnable positions for you. They are tolerant, diverse, fighters for social justice; if you oppose them, by contrast, you are intolerant, xenophobic, and in favor of injustice. Now, all these terms are – to be polite – a crock,”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Why can’t you just convince me on the basis of the evidence that what you’re proposing is the right solution for America?”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“MORGAN: I’m not the one who came in here and accused you of standing on the graves of dead children -- SHAPIRO: Because you’re the one who is doing that. I’m punching back twice as hard. MORGAN: That’s what I call bullying. SHAPIRO: You know what I call it? Punching back twice as hard, in the words of President Obama.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“I think we can have a rational, political conversation about balancing rights and risks and rewards of all of these different policies, but I don’t think that what we need to do is demonize people on the other side as being unfeeling about what happened at Sandy Hook.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“he did it by bringing on folks from the right and then suggesting that they were evil for disagreeing with him.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“You know he’s going to call you a racist, because he always calls his opponents racist.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“In fact, if your opponent thinks you’re not worthy of debating, he isn’t worthy of debating.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“point out that throwing around accusations without evidence makes your opponent a piece of garbage”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The left knows this is war. And they know you are the enemy. You will be castigated. You will get punched. That’s the way it will go because that’s how the left wins: through intimidation and cruelty.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“That person already disagrees with you, and they’re not going to be convinced by your words of wisdom and your sparkling rhetorical flourishes. The goal will be to destroy the leftist in as public a way as is humanly possible.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The left no longer makes arguments about policies’ effectiveness. Their only argument is character assassination”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“This is the Hollywood argument same-sex marriage: you like certain characters, so if you don’t like their behavior, it’s because you’re mean and nasty. This is what Hollywood does best.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“At the university level, this perspective is commonplace – and that leads to ideological discrimination.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“When someone labels you a bad human being because they disagree with you, they are bullying you. They are attacking your character without justification. That’s nasty. In fact, it makes them nasty.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“When someone slanders you because you happen to disagree with them about global warming or the government shutdown, that’s bullying.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“This is a bully tactic. When someone calls you a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe because you happen to disagree with them about tax policy or same-sex marriage or abortion, that’s bullying.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Conservatives get trapped in this gambit routinely, because they figure that the enemy of their enemy is their friend: if the left is attacking someone, he must be worth defending. But that’s not true.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Rule #6: Force Leftists to Answer Questions. This is really just a corollary of Rule #4. Leftists are only comfortable when they are forcing you to answer questions. If they have to answer questions, they begin to scratch their heads. The questions they prefer to ask are about your character; the questions they prefer not to answer are all of them. Instead, they like to dodge issues in favor of those character arguments. If you force a leftist to answer whether he or she would prefer to give up mom or dad in the name of political correctness – after all, all families are equal, so what difference does it make? – they will avoid. If you force a leftist to answer whether they would force churches to perform same-sex marriages, they will avoid. If you force a leftist to answer why we should all give up our nice cars while the Chinese and Russians continue to dump toxic waste into the atmosphere, they will avoid.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Your goal is to make the left admit once and for all what they believe about policy by exposing those inconsistencies.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“It is the reason that the right consistently loses the black and Hispanic vote – not because the right’s policies are so abhorrent to blacks and Hispanics, but because blacks and Hispanics have been told for generations that conservatives hate them.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“There are truly only three situations in which debating someone on the left is worthwhile. First, you must: your grade depends on it, or your waiter threatens to spit in your food unless you tell him why same-sex marriage is a detriment to Western civilization. Second, you found an honest leftist actually willing to be convinced by solid argumentation. Congratulations! You found him. He actually wants to sit down and have an evidence-based conversation with you; you want to have an evidenced based conversation with him. Everything is just hunky dory! Then you ride off on your separate unicorns. Third, you should debate a leftist if there is an audience. The goal of the debate will not be to win over the leftist, or to convince him or her, or to be friends with him or her. That person already disagrees with you, and they’re not going to be convinced by your words of wisdom and your sparkling rhetorical flourishes. The goal will be to destroy the leftist in as public a way as is humanly possible.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Members of the left are not interested in having a debate about policy. They are not interested in debating what is right or wrong for the country. They are interested in debating you personally. They are interested in castigating you as a nasty human being because you happen to disagree. This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“They are interested in castigating you as a nasty human being because you happen to disagree. This is what makes leftists leftists: an unearned sense of moral superiority over you. And”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“There is no way to convince someone that you don’t hate him or her. You can convince him or her, however, that your opposition is a liar and a hater. When”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The left knows this is war. And”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“Andrew used to say you have to embrace the fight, walk toward the fire. He would explain that you are going to get hit with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune no matter which way you turn. You can try to hide from the attacks of the left; you can run away from them, attempt to ignore them, pretend that the left has reached some sort of quasi-consensus in which they live and let live. That will last until the protesters are outside your business, the government regulators are outside your house, or the administrators are inside your child’s classroom. Then you’ll realize that while you were willing to let live, the left simply wasn’t.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“There are truly only three situations in which debating someone on the left is worthwhile. First, you must: your grade depends on it, or your waiter threatens to spit in your food unless you tell him why same-sex marriage is a detriment to Western civilization. Second, you found an honest leftist actually willing to be convinced by solid argumentation. Congratulations!”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“The people who occupy the professoriate have not had to work a real job – a job with real-world consequences -- in over 30 years.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument

“What they want to teach instead is that is you are personally ignorant, bigoted, corrupt, and mean if you disagree with them. Their opinions are not opinions; they are fact.”
― Ben Shapiro, How to Debate Leftists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument