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Dirty Tricks of Debating: aliens from the one dimensional universe
The world is complicated. To explain things to small minds, teachers tend to simplify things, and small minds often take those simplified caricatures literally.
Take the political spectrum. Small minds think that all possible political positions can be found along a single one-dimensional line, with a left side and a right side.
I want to ask these people, where on Earth are things so simple? Are you an alien from a one-dimensional universe?
Over here in the 3-D universe, there's a huge amount of different policy ideas and an infinite amount of possible cultural futures.
Stop pretending that we are dads and kids fighting to control some sort of thermostat:
"Who touched the politics-dial?"
One thing leftists love to do is drop the "so you're saying" bomb on normies when they mention some past policy or practice which we should save.
Take the political spectrum. Small minds think that all possible political positions can be found along a single one-dimensional line, with a left side and a right side.
I want to ask these people, where on Earth are things so simple? Are you an alien from a one-dimensional universe?
Over here in the 3-D universe, there's a huge amount of different policy ideas and an infinite amount of possible cultural futures.
Stop pretending that we are dads and kids fighting to control some sort of thermostat:
"Who touched the politics-dial?"
"I like how people dressed in 1963".
"Oh, so you want segregation to return, is that what you're saying? There was an earthquake in 1963, so you're saying you want more earthquakes? "
We are not fighting over a time machine here, folks.
"Oh, so you want segregation to return, is that what you're saying? There was an earthquake in 1963, so you're saying you want more earthquakes? "