fierceawakening:

epistemotypus:

adobsonartworks:

This is what I hate the most about nearly all online debates. Sometimes opposing sides are NOT equal, and we shouldn’t treat them as if they were.

That is… Debates aren’t about finding a common middle ground, they’re about presenting two arguments and letting the audience make up their own mind. Which is WHY you want Camp Genocide to make their argument, b/c nothing will dig their grave faster than their own attempt at trying to sell the murder of innocent people as a good thing. You WANT to actively engage with them so that you can openly refute what they say, rather than let them slink away to a corner where they can lure people into easily overlooked echo chambers.

Debates are quite literally how we won our civil rights. If they were ever about finding the middle ground we’d have never achieved anything. You sell our most effective tool for progress short when you act like the goal is to meet in the middle, rather than openly destroying harmful ideologies on the public forum.

And I dare you to find literally any online argument, debate or otherwise, that ever once ended with both parties meeting in the middle, as opposed to both parties blocking the other person and then shit talking the other behind their back. People won’t meet in the middle ground over goddamn waifus for Christ’s sake they sure as shit ain’t meeting in the middle over political ideology.

Refusing to argue against bad ideas lets them fester into something worse. You don’t fight sickness by ignoring it, you fight it by recognizing it exists.

People who make posts like this seem to be relabeling “compromises” as “debates.”

Sometimes compromises are not appropriate, yes.

But debates are a completely different beast.