Luke_A_Somers comments on False Friends and Tone Policing - Less Wrong
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In order to have a useful conversation about the topic it will be necessary to challenge his implicit claim. If he insists on making that impossible then its not possible to have a reasonable conversation with him.
For certain conversations, yes. Others, no.
For conversations about the topic that don't involve you conceding all points to him, yes.
I suggest that these conversations could include whether his way of interpreting that position is correct.