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Notice how Common Core paints persuasion as emotional and manipulative and argumentative as constructive and logical. I remember when calling some argumentative was a slur, a derisive term used to describe someone who can't win the debate with facts and logic, gets emotional and constantly yells and interrupts the other debater. The common saying was that such a person wasn't debating, they were simply arguing. Debate should be facts and logic over opinions, completely devoid of emotion, and persuasive. You persuade with facts and logic and a well articulated speech. Argumentative describes someone using cheap, childish tactics and trying to bully.
Another claim is that women in the past were dismissed as emotional when they shouted someone down, whereas men were seen as powerful. This is not true. Men who did that were seen as boorish and obviously unintelligent. The implication is that anyone doing so is less intelligent than the other person and has to try and "cheat". Everything they said, regardless of their gender, was dismissed with a "Look what he has to stoop to win an argument".
I feel there is a push in society to undo traditional debate and discourse.

Another claim is that women in the past were dismissed as emotional when they shouted someone down, whereas men were seen as powerful. This is not true. Men who did that were seen as boorish and obviously unintelligent. The implication is that anyone doing so is less intelligent than the other person and has to try and "cheat". Everything they said, regardless of their gender, was dismissed with a "Look what he has to stoop to win an argument".
I feel there is a push in society to undo traditional debate and discourse.