The Denialist's Deck of Cards
Starting with the two of clubs ('no problem', which I would call 'what
problem') and working up to 'it's bad for business', you can now
look
at the complete, ordered list of the rhetorical arguments denialists
use to squash debate on issues which affect their business. It also
includes handy references to actual cases where industry lobby groups
have used that particular tactic, just in case you thought no-one would
ever be stupid enough, for instance, to try and assert that it was
impossibly restrictive to require banks to actually keep their customers'
details private.
As tempting as it is to make up some kind of card game using these cards,
I feel too heated up about this kind of rhetoric-over-reason approach to
dealing with problems to be able to actually use them. I can play a
evil
mastermind, but not a corporate psychopath.
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