It's offensively lazy, and that's sort of the point. It's like Sartre said about anti-semites
Never believe that [ZIONISTS] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [ZIONISTS] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
It rings of the old Karl Rove "attack them in their strengths" strategy. When you can saturate media with these kinds of statements, its depressingly effective. Hard to argue when there is this deafening chorus line echoing the sentiment.
British politics employs similar tactics. Doesn't matter if what folks are saying is dumb as dishwater. So long as that's the only thing anyone ever hears, its the only thing they believe.
It's offensively lazy, and that's sort of the point. It's like Sartre said about anti-semites
It rings of the old Karl Rove "attack them in their strengths" strategy. When you can saturate media with these kinds of statements, its depressingly effective. Hard to argue when there is this deafening chorus line echoing the sentiment.
British politics employs similar tactics. Doesn't matter if what folks are saying is dumb as dishwater. So long as that's the only thing anyone ever hears, its the only thing they believe.