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Oh aren't you cute. You wanna play games let's play.

I answered your first two questions in the very post your were responding to, but since you seem to have reading comprehension problems I'll be more direct.
Common wisdom is assumptions held by a group and generally assumed to be true within that group but it might not actually be true. For instance it's common wisdom among conservatives is that government is a problem, common wisdom among liberals is that government is a solution; obviously one of them is wrong.
One of the pieces of common wisdom you'll find on FR is, as was put forth by High Road in post 5 of this thread which I have directly questioned, that WalMart's empire was built by Chinese slave labor (you'll note I said this EXACT SAME THING in the post your question was in reply to, and it VERY DIRECTLY answered your questions before you even asked if only you had bothered to actually read what was written rather than plunging on in your desperate attempt to prove you have a point).

The point of percentage of imports among retailers, as I have ALREADY EXPLAINED MULTIPLE TIMES IN THIS THREAD is quite simple. The asertion is that WalMart built their empire on Chinese slave labor. If, during their growth years, they imported no more stuff from China than their competitors then that is clearly NOT how they built their success, which would make the assertion wrong.

As for what was rubbish in that spam, again I have ALREADY ANSWERED THAT QUESTION DIRECTLY, but I'll do it again to show you how reasonable I am even when confronted with someone that's doing nothing more than wasting time. It was too damn long. It was complete unsourced and therefore unverifiable. And there was no form of hilighting to draw attention to the parts that delt directly with the question at hand. That makes it rubbish. He should have selected the parts that delt directly with the question at hand, preferably less than a page's worth, and quoted them with links to the source for further investigation if I so chose. Instead he tried proof by volume, knowing full well that nobody would sit down to read all that he just dumped it in, and didn't even provide any proof that it wasn't stuff he just made up (ie source links). I could spend a couple of hours typing up a bunch of crap that looks official and tossed it in here too, wouldn't have made it proof.

See the difference here is that I ACTUALLY ANSWER your questions. When asked to prove that WalMart built their empire via Chinese slave labor High Road went on a tangent about diapers made in Nazi Germany by Jews, NOT an answer to my question.

The point of percentage of imports among retailers, as I have ALREADY EXPLAINED MULTIPLE TIMES IN THIS THREAD is quite simple. The asertion is that WalMart built their empire on Chinese slave labor. If, during their growth years, they imported no more stuff from China than their competitors then that is clearly NOT how they built their success, which would make the assertion wrong.

This is not logically sound. It presupposes there can only be one succesful company. More than one could build an empire on slave labor.

This, though, is trivial.

My questions about your point were meant to address the boycott issue. My impression is that you are saying why boycott Wal-mart but not others when all have either built (or not built) their success on slave labor equally.

You talk too much. Simple and straightforward is best.