Reply #10: Absolutely, Teetotally, Completely, and Undeniably Correct!

[patrice]

" . . . he successfully uses their own tactics against them and it pisses them off."

It has frustrated me for years to sit and listen to this stuff go back and forth, and hear numerous MISSED opportunities to take what these fascists are saying and turn it against them, not through ridicule, but with Socratic logic.

This is a tactic that I use, and believe me it works. You can also do two things with it depending upon your objectives. You have the choice of pushing it to the point of getting the "opponent" really frustrated with their own inability to deal with it, or you can approach it more persuasively in order to make a friend.

The basic point is to use whatever opportunity they provide you to SHOW others what is wrong with what they are saying, not defensively, in terms of "you" yourself or what you are doing, but in their own terms, then you choose your own time and place to do your own "other" thing. You do that on your own terms, not defending against theirs.