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Overview of Opposition Tactics: Recognizing the Ten D's

  

Tools & Checklists

Contributed by Jenette Nagy and Chris Hampton

Edited by Stephen B. Fawcett, Bill berkowitz and Kate Nagy

Checklist

Here, you'll find a checklist summarizing the major points contained in the text.

___Your opposition is trying to intimidate your group to reduce its effectiveness.

___You have realized that by not responding to the attack you are still giving a response.

___Your organization has a strategy to deal with attacks.

___You are responding to attacks as they occur.

___If the group attacking you has an ongoing campaign against you, you respond only when they have done something unusual or outstanding.

___You recognize ten possible ways your opposition may assault you:

  • Deflection
  • Delays
  • Denials
  • Discounting
  • Deception
  • Dividing
  • Dulcifying
  • Discrediting
  • Destroy
  • Deal

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