On Fri, 12 Apr 2013, Christopher Green went:
In short, adopting your opponent's high-status vocabulary and then twisting it to your own purposes is an often successful diversionary tactic
This reminds me, tangentially, of one of the most nefarious and effective presto-change-o tricks to have been inflicted upon US political discourse in decades: the libertarian use of "entitlements" (in reference to Social Security and Medicare) as if it were a psychological term rather than a legal one. This has become so pervasive that you can now hear people try to *defend* the continued full funding of those programs by insisting that they are "not entitlements"! It would be hilarious if there weren't so much at stake. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=24978 or send a blank email to leave-24978-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
