B. U. G. S.

I admitted my admiration of the “latent homosexual” tactic that liberals use to silence all oppositiont to Gay Lib.

The beauty of this tactic is that you can’t argue with it.

If someone is a “latent” homosexual” it means he doesn’t KNOW he is a homosexual. By definition, he is hte last person on earth who can defend himself from the chrage.

You can’t argue that you aren’t a LATENT anything.

Another neat and similar gambit is hte “DUHH!” tactic. This is a product of the inbred intellectual hothouse antis live in. The anti simply says “DUHH!” or, in the standard anti language, which is synonymous iwth “DUHH!” they say, “I don’t understand what you are talking about.”

Now if you are a New York City provincial or any other kind of provincial who thinks that his is the Only Truly Sophisticated World, anyone you don’t understand is a rube. In fact, anybody who doesn’t repeat what you are used to hearing is, by definition, a rube.

And, like “latent,” there is no way to answer this argument.

How can you argue with someone about whether THEY understand what you are talking about? If you accept the assumption that if they don’t understand, then YOU are doing something wrong, it all falls into place.

You cannot argue that you are not a “latent” anything. You cannot argue that someone else understands what you are saying, no matter how simple it is.

Which means antis never have to absorb new ideas.

People who are comfortable with new ideas don’t develop tactics like that.