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I won't equate myself with those progressive figures who have been outspoken and enacted social change, but I will compare your pathetic level of engaging in a deliberative community.
Really, you should read your Aristotle...And the fact that the phrase isn't familiar to you speaks volumes about your ability to tolerate let alone create an even basic level of engaging in debate.
The very position of suggesting that you get to decide the basis of discussion at Salon is troubling indeed and not very far removed from the imperialism of the U.S. in general. We have to be better than this.