Lotsa Dudes out there tight upset that "nobody on the Left wants to debate" them.
I kinda get it, because many skeletal pundits have written books on how to "debate liberals" and TV has suggested to them that debating stuff is how the world works, and now that they are all psyched up, they don't understand why nobody wants to play along
Fact is, debates are a bit childish, very antiquated, and a colossal waste of time. It's the kind of unserious pantomime kabuki theater that gets in the way
@mloxton I disagree with this. If you go into a debate with the right mindset, it's one of the greatest ways to learn new facts and perspectives. For example, most of my knowledge of 1A jurisprudence comes from being proven wrong in Twitter debates and learning something new.
While not everyone approaches debates with such scholarly ambitions, I think writing them off as "childish" is going too far in the other direction.
How can we truly define our own ideology without it being regularly challenged by our peers?
