Houtman Defense

What is Houtman Defense?


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A defense mechanism used in a political debate that consists of turning the argument into a stereotype about mexicans and other hispanics, or using the stereotype as a parallel to push a point across.

Alex knew he was losing the arguement about rednecks voting bush into office, so he used the houtman defense and simply said well illegal immigrants drive our fruit picking industry.

See debate, argument, politics, hispanic, mexican, immigrant, stereotype, redneck, bush


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