In my own online interactions with people of that ilk (incl. even close relatives), I have sadly noted that even repeatedly identifying their main arguments as "invalid" (and even always clearly identifying the specific fallacy - i.e., "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!" or "Bulverism!") elicits hardly any coherent response - excerpt perhaps an indignant "You're being mean and hurtful!" or "But it isn't fair!"
I know for a fact that some of these people took college-level classes in Classical Philosophy, etc. - but they appear to have utterly forgotten or even actively disavowed Western Civilization's 2,300-year-old tradition of Aristotelian logic (though they won't admit to it).
Regards,
When I’ve tried to engage the Socratic Method with lib-minded folks, they often interpret the questions as attacks on an emotional level.
Typical debate with a democrat liberal:
Democrat: “It’s hot out today”
You: “it’s only 75 degrees”
Democrat: “you’re a racist!”
Critical Theory
You post a lot. Many of us appreciate it thank you
Bookmark
I have local kids that believe that EVERY problem they have can be fixed with their cell phone.
Johnny’s class list.
Debate and Rhetoric 101 “THAT’S RACIST.”
Debate and Rhetoric 201 “THAT’S RACIST”
Debate and Rhetoric.....
i once taught at an inner city high school. during class time, a majority of the students actively ignored me, making sex related jokes. by hit or miss, i eventually discovered what the students were good at— rote copying of textbook material onto posters, and gold stars handed out from me to them for class participation (of any type). they were also good at jailhouse lawyer style posturing whenever administration intervened.
I think it all stems from geometry. Geometry classes have been dumbed down, to the point where students don’t even have to complete a proof. There’s no better way to teach logic than those proofs.
BookMark
“Higher” education is a disaster - but not for the reasons set forth on this silly article.
“High” school is the place to become employable. The baccalaureate is meant to turn men of superior intelligence into better people, not better workers.
“Higher” education in the US makes most people who partake of it stupider, and turns them into debt slaves on top of that.
But the liberal arts (I am an English major, and a physician) are not vocational school. To pretend that a four year college will make a previously unemployable person into a workforce asset is to believe in fairy tales.