Our Desire For Productive Political Debate

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Here on DenyInorance.com will not tolerate new topics based on divisive and distracting innuendo, rumors, or lies.
 
We will not tolerate the posting of rhetoric and blame-game ideology that deflects attention from important discussion.

We will examine the merits of the issues. We will analyze the candidate platforms. We will seek the truth.

We will seek to make a difference.
 
If not us, then who? If not now, then when?
 
Those who enjoy concocting broad-stroke insults direct toward those not of their political persuasion may jerk their knee and call this a restriction of free expression... so be it.

But the overwhelming atmosphere of hate, insults, and over-the-top exaggerations is not desired here on DI. When we see an abundance of disparaging names and hateful condescension, the atmosphere is polluted and discussion turns away from the issues and toward each other. And that, my friends, is playing into the political game "THEY" want you to play.
 
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YOU are responsible for your words.
No one else. No one is forcing you to reply to others who may push your buttons. No one is forcing you to push the buttons of others.

Brava!

It always struck me as contradictory, when members who clearly are intelligent and discerning resort to using emotional prodding to diminish the ideas of someone with whom they disagree.

Name-crafting, while sometimes giggly fun, usually does not serve the actual point of the discussion... and if the point of the discussion is "mud," it does not belong here, find a place where the 'game' is afoot... it is not Deny Ignorance.

Deny Ignorance is quite explicitly not the place to "elevate and propagate ignorance."  Other places have followed that path, much to their diminishment.