I'm actually not sure this is a thing that's not happening, when I think about it? An idea, once presented, is open to debate.
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And then any sort of formal, structured response to that idea, to my mind constitutes that idea being debated and it happens.
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So right wingers publish a book that's like "the Stolen Generation didn't happen", for an Australian example, that is debate.
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And it happens all the time, it's just kind of the case that Conservatives are bad at idea.
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I think frankly that face-to-face spoken debating and one-on one engagement is kind of actually not great for idea engagement.
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We need to be encouraging more conservatives to actually become willing students. There's only so much a teacher can do.
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I actually think the stuff your your YT videos have a good role to play in stuff like this, by the way.
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Good texts are better for long-term ideological change than good chats, and your stuff is good text.
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I think your lefty vaudeville is way better than, for example, that discussion you had with the Skeptic Couple.
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All that happens with the latter is everyone praises each other on civility and then they go and continue making odious shit.
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yeah I basically agree with that
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