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Originally Posted by leavesofliberty
Shame Trolly should really have nothing to add about productive discussion for obvious reasons... facebook bubble...I mean, really Shame Trolly, you really know nothing about good discussion.
LOL no. FYI: I don't do Facebook.
What I've just said above is very simple, and when we remove the highly emotional baggage surrounding the r-word, quite obvious.
Let's say were trying to have a "productive" discussion regarding various spectator sports. The most popular spectator sport in the world is sometimes called "Association Football", and typically called unqualified "football" by most of it's fans. However, in the US, the unqualified term "football" is typically referring to what is sometimes called "American Football", while Association Football is typically called "Soccer". In Australia, Association Football is also typically called "Soccer", American Football is often called "Gridiron", and unqualified "football", quite often shortened to "footy", usually refers to Australian Rules Football.
Let's further say we had a situation like we have here in Los Dos Politards regarding the two definitions if the r-word, and about 99% of the discussions regarding these various spectator sports were looped & derailed into an 'argument' about the one-true-and-only-official-definition of the word "football".
In this scenario, it should be obvious that picking one default definition for the word "football", even if it was picked at random, would be better than the 99% looping & derailing inherent in the status quo.