Discussion in America means dissent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Managing dissent is about recognizing the value of disagreement, discord and difference.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress.
Dissents speak to a future age.
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
Dialogue means debates and everyone's point of view.
You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.