btyger said:
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But he doesn't believe it. He does it for the money.
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It's so true. Lots of people who promote hate speech or thoughts did it only to gain political and/or social power. Very few thinkers "actually" believe in the crap that they sell. It's the impressionable teenagers that they target who actually believe those things. I can think of quite a few examples where a person of great power got there purely by inciting the masses with emotionally heated speeches and thoughts (usually hateful).
To BD, the proud American:
As a general rule, people who throw out word combinations like "suckass" are usually out of an argument (viable argument). If you must attack someone (IF), try to do it logically, clearly and free of linguistic errors.
Let's analyse WHY people throw out useless comments and insults:
In any kind of debate, there's always someone who had more logics and facts on his/her side, let's call this person, A.
The other person, B, is the one who isn't quite as well matched in terms of logics and facts.
In a perfect world, B would've listened to A and realized the error of his/her ways; however, it's not in a typical person's nature to admit defeat, thus B would come up of some sort of "comeback" that acts as a shield to hide behind.
Why can't B just say something logical? Because anything logical can be rebuked by A (who's superior in that field). Therefore B must come up with something that A cannot rebuke (or rather not), and it also must allow B to "let his/her anger out" (B is angry because he realized the weakness in his actual arguments and beliefs).
The technique (if we can call it that) of name-calling is that whatever you decided to say, it MUST be senseless and pointless. Or else you risk it backfiring. For example, a perfect name-calling would be "suckass" or "pussy scum sucking liberal vermin"... Unless A is willing to say "Oh, I disagree, I have not in fact suck any ass; and also liberals are of the species Homo Sapian, very much different from that of a vermin.", he/she would not have an argument.
Thus I conclude Name-Calling wins all debates ! If that fails, claim that your views are that of a "real man".