How to deal with assholes who constantly lie about and misrepresent your views?
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 2:21 am
This is a problem that everyone has encountered or will encounter, it's mostly prevalent on the internet and among less educated people who dont really know how to debate. This problem, if left unchecked can have serious consequences and change the entire course of the debate.
It seems like almost every time I make a statement, someone else in an attempt to "one up" me and just straight up lies and misrepresents my views, this is a dishonorable and disingenuous fallacy called a "strawman" where your opponent fabricates your position to make it easier for them to attack.
A real life example of this fallacy is if one person says that Public schools should not force children to pray, and then their opponent will accuse the other person of trying to spread Atheism. If I get aggressive and call out his lies and fallacies he will send me some religious verse that tells me not to get angry and tells me to "calm down" and "let your guard down" to appear as a higher moral authority to others and then completely ignores the fact that he lied about my views in the first place. What ends up happening is that I look like I am angry and my opponent looks calm and cool even tho he lied to get where he was.
The worst part is that that my community is filled with a bunch of retards who are too stupid to realize what going on and just go along with it. By the time I "pin down" my opponent for lying and misrepresenting my views, he moves on to another subject and does it all again. This process is very time consuming, and inefficient becuase my opponent continuously does the same thing over and over. The worst part is that my community can't tell the differance. It seems that if I ignore my opponent he will continue to misrepresent my views, this will result in negative publicity for me and more upvotes for him because by ignoring him i leave his argument uncontested. If I respond to him, it will just be a waste of his time becuase he won't admit his mistake or change his position and will continue to use the same slimy tactics over and over again.
My question is how do we deal with assholes who constantly lie and misrepresent my views? Do I just block or stop responding to them and hope they just get board and leave? Do I make an "Exposed" post on them? or I continue to waste my time constantly correcting them?
If you want to see exactly what went down, then please message you and I will send you the link to the reddit post where it happened.
NOTE: I am NOT here to debate religion, I just want to learn how to counter those who misrepresent views and commit fallacies when the observing community responsible for voting is blind to fallacies.
It seems like almost every time I make a statement, someone else in an attempt to "one up" me and just straight up lies and misrepresents my views, this is a dishonorable and disingenuous fallacy called a "strawman" where your opponent fabricates your position to make it easier for them to attack.
A real life example of this fallacy is if one person says that Public schools should not force children to pray, and then their opponent will accuse the other person of trying to spread Atheism. If I get aggressive and call out his lies and fallacies he will send me some religious verse that tells me not to get angry and tells me to "calm down" and "let your guard down" to appear as a higher moral authority to others and then completely ignores the fact that he lied about my views in the first place. What ends up happening is that I look like I am angry and my opponent looks calm and cool even tho he lied to get where he was.
The worst part is that that my community is filled with a bunch of retards who are too stupid to realize what going on and just go along with it. By the time I "pin down" my opponent for lying and misrepresenting my views, he moves on to another subject and does it all again. This process is very time consuming, and inefficient becuase my opponent continuously does the same thing over and over. The worst part is that my community can't tell the differance. It seems that if I ignore my opponent he will continue to misrepresent my views, this will result in negative publicity for me and more upvotes for him because by ignoring him i leave his argument uncontested. If I respond to him, it will just be a waste of his time becuase he won't admit his mistake or change his position and will continue to use the same slimy tactics over and over again.
My question is how do we deal with assholes who constantly lie and misrepresent my views? Do I just block or stop responding to them and hope they just get board and leave? Do I make an "Exposed" post on them? or I continue to waste my time constantly correcting them?
If you want to see exactly what went down, then please message you and I will send you the link to the reddit post where it happened.
NOTE: I am NOT here to debate religion, I just want to learn how to counter those who misrepresent views and commit fallacies when the observing community responsible for voting is blind to fallacies.