why not recognize that examining prior assumptions and their underpinnings is what causes someone to arrive at leftism and treat those inquiries as genuine opportunities to learn with someone rather than teach or be taught by them?

This is what I'm advocating for. So often here I see hostility towards any outsider. This is not conducive to learning. It only causes them to shut down and not accept different information, and the people here to conform to group-think and not question their assumptions.

Hostility never convinces anyone of anything. If the goal is actually to convince them, then being hostile doesn't get anywhere. If you don't think it's worth your time then fine, but how is insulting them then worth your time? Again, it doesn't do anything except enforce group-think and push them away, neither of which I think have any value.

[–] farting_weedman@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

And here you are again, imploring the community to be more lenient with you when you refused to back up what you said even though you know where the information to do so is.

Your last assertion is wrong, but it would be a social good if you were driven away or forced to think differently.