(05-21-2022, 01:18 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: The Overton Window is not a slippery slope, argument, you simpleton, and your suggestion as such only confirms that you don't understand what it is. It's a legitimate and widely used political strategy used to get policy passed. This is a mainstream concept that was discussed ad nauseum in my poli-sci classes. It's the whole reason I brought it up with regards to the trans movement. The political left uses radicals to push extreme ideas (ones outside of the mainstream discussion), not to pass that radical policy, but to make the policy they want seem acceptable to the public. The problem is that their progressive base, who is loud and naive, buy completely into the extreme positions and push that so much that moderates actually start entertaining it. This is where you come in.

The right can't utilize it the same way because, up until recently, their arguments have largely been part of the public narrative. The only reason that has changed is due to the effectiveness of the left's use of this strategy and their ability to control the narrative. It's simple. Sorry you can't see it, and annoyed your think it's a slippery slope argument.

You can't say puberty blockers save lives on a whim. That's asinine, and your prozac argument doesn't follow. Sorry pal.

Just because you majored in political science, and have all this historical and esoteric knowledge of the Overton window that I don't have, does not mean that you understand logic, or logical fallacies.

Your argument takes the form of "I don't want to discuss the merits or demerits of A. I believe A leads inevitably to B, and I don't want B, so we can't let A happen."   You haven't really said what B is but that's OK.  You are sure that your enemies are only using A to make B happen, and you think there is a good chance that A actually will make B happen, and that's enough info for you.  Your mentions of the Overton window are only there to flesh out why you and your enemies both believe there is an inevitable connection between A and B.  Anyhow, all of that to say, definitely a slippery slope argument.

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