"I'm offended"

Prager: "I'm offended" is the new "shut up".

Yup. I'm still waiting to hear Mr. Prager use the term "trump card" though. So much of what leftists do during arguments is meant to force an instant victory. All the SIXHIRB slams are exactly that. "I'm offended" is meant to shut down conservative thought. We had such a label, when we started referring to leftists' controlling rhetoric as "politically correct", until the left themselves got hold of it and claimed it was meant to cut off leftwing and progressive speech. I knew intelligent people who actually thought that, completely unaware of the origins of that term.

The trump card is a name, label, title, accusation that is meant to eviscerate not just the opponent, but his argument and his friends, associates, mother, father, employers, you name it, as well. "You think that? You racist!" Now no one on the planet will ever be able to say that the guy may have a point, or even that he's possibly partially correct. Remember when a famous conservative said ONE THING about Hitler was praiseworthy? That Hitler had been decorated as a soldier in WW1, and this conservative, in the process of saying that there's no such thing as a purely good OR purely evil human being, acknowledged that EVEN Hitler had fought valorously for Germany during WW1, which immediately made him an Untouchable.

Gawd, I hate the left. That's why I left them.