THE HYPOCRISY ARGUMENT

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I am always fascinated when people lob the accusation of “Hypocrisy!” in political disagreements. It’s put forward with such confident self-righteousness, but it’s always a losing argument. That’s because “My political enemy used to say X, but now they say Y!” can so easily be flipped on its head. 

Every time.

(And the person making the hypocrisy argument simply doesn’t see it. THAT is what is fascinating.)

Here’s a great example posted by a friend on Facebook recently: 

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