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In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I've often observed that a rather efficient way to prevent actual dialog from happening is to merely label your opponent's premise a "conspiracy theory", ad a goofy picture or two, and then pretend to ourselves that we've "won" an argument.
Although it certainly lacks any substance, it does makes up for that in its inherent and self-validating tautology, and further allows us to minimize and trivialize the opposition view without even addressing it.
The RW does that often enough in response to the scientific consensus of Global Warming. And just in case you're not aware of it, dogma is a rather steep obstacle to critical thought, and our ability to consider more than one perspective; although I've also observed that the most common retort to this is "I know enough/read enough/researched enough about this subject to make up my mind...", which may even be true in one or two very rare cases...