[lds23]

My favorite debate tricks I see liberals using include:

Taking an anecdote and blowing it up with hyperbole, which takes at least two forms. The first is saying something like "How would you like if such-and-such exaggerated example happened to you". The other form is to exaggerate it as a hateful premise, such as "What, do you want to take all the immigrants and put them in jail?"

Another technique is basically the opposite tactic. They try to pin down a hairsplitting example, such as "So you're saying there no cases ever filed in California that bilingual education helps a disabled child?". Alternatively, they give a hairsplitting example where something went wrong as an example of why the baby has to be thrown out with the bathwater.

[IronJack]

Yep. The old argumentum ad absurdo. Almost no argument holds at the extremes. The one you hear most often is "Does the Second Amendment give you the right to keep and bear atomic bombs?"

I always like to see liberals' faces (both of them) when I say "Yes. It does."