Objectification
Dishonest Debate Tactics
Propaganda
Colonization
The "New" World
100

The standard against which we measure or assess something (or someone).

Metric

100

When you have feelings or opinions, often subconsciously, about something or someone that affect your judgement or treatment of it/them.

Bias

100

The theory that states that people hold a different set of moral and behavioral standards towards their group than they do against those in other groups.

In-Group/Out-Group Theory

100

When a foreign government invades and holds control over another land and their peoples.

Colonization

100

When the Spanish colonizers arrived in the Caribbean, they could not find gold, so they decided to do what instead?

Enslave

200

The action of measuring something (or someone) against a metric.

Assess
200
When you give so many argument points that your opponent cannot keep up.

Gish Galop

200

Examples of this type of propaganda include terrorists and enemy soldiers.

Out-Group Enemy

200
When a group gains something that allows them to attack neighboring groups with much lower risk. 

Technological Advantage

200

The "original" Thanksgiving was due to what kind of an agreement between the Indians and the Pilgrims.

Military Alliance

300

An economic object

Commodity

300

When you only mention the info that supports your argument and hide or avoid the other info.

Cherrypicking

300

Examples of this type of propaganda include traitors and political opposition.

In-Group Enemy

300

When the risk is so high that you stand to lose as much as you gain.

Zero Sum Game

300

The pilgrims left the Netherlands, they left because they wanted this in the "New World".

Religious Authority

400

When the facts do not match your opinion so you ignore or twist the facts (a.k.a. mental gymnastics).

Cognitive Dissonance

400

Surrounding bad info in a lot of good info so that your audience misses the bad info or thinks that the good info outweighs it.

Spin / Frame

400

Examples of this type of propaganda include putting the portrait or the president behind a picture of a wholesome family or a picture of brave soldiers 

Leader

400

This is the most impactful disease that "helped" Europeans colonize the Americas.

Small Pox

400

Three years after the Europeans landed, the indigenous population of what is now known as Haiti had diminished from 250k to 125k, and this is the number of that it decreased to over 50 years.

500

500
When you turn something that is not an economic (market) object into an economic object.

Commoditization

500

The common part of our psychology that (mistakenly) can drive us not to apologize or admit when we are wrong.

(Social) Prestige

500

Examples of this type of propaganda include the wholesome family and the brave soldier.

In-Group Prestige

500
This is how Cortez was able to coordinate the end of the Aztec Empire.

Military Alliance with surrounding tribes

500

The name of the priest who recorded the atrocities committed in Haiti and copied Columbus's journals.

Bartolome de las Casas

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