There's too much online discussion where the topic at hand is reinvented from first principles again, and again, and again, in what can at best be described as a strenous relationship to actual reality as every debateperson is loaded with the assumption that they are imbued with the sum total of human knowledge and therefore must never read any material on anything other than other peoples posts that are also reinvented from first principles

These people should all be shamed away from participating in any discussion until they better themselves, which is what lurk moar did.

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[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

It's fine to engage, albeit

I mean ask questions, and then listen to the answers.

is flying very close to the sun of gish gallop bullshit questions that, really, you should just google.

I'd argue this site has the concept pretty down pat. I mean there's some good souls who'd write your truthful answer as to things like "Why is blackface racist but not whiteface" or similar questions but really the appropiate answer is: there's enough written on this topic that you could just read that.