I “lost” an argument this week to someone who must have used this as his handbook. His attack was a disjoint blend of Histrionics (“Use emotion . . . Sound indignant, outraged, self-righteous, passionate, ‘courageous’, ‘defiant'”) and Moral One-upmanship (“If people disagree with you, accuse them of Eurocentrism or elitism or intolerance or narrowness or conventional thinking or scientism or homophobia”). And then, the coup de grace:

Claiming is Succeeding: Blur the distinction between claiming to make your case, and actually making it.

At that point, I started to wonder what on earth I was doing, wasting my time. lol

Oh, I also realized how much I appreciate the clear and honest minds I’ve encountered since I’ve begun blogging. Thanks, you guys.