In discussions about consciousness I find myself repeating the same basic argument against the existence of qualia constantly. I don't do this just to be annoying: It is just my experience that

1. People find consciousness really hard to think about and has been known to cause a lot of disagreements.

2. Personally I think that this particular argument dissolved perhaps 50% of all my confusion about the topic, and was one of the simplest, clearest arguments that I've ever seen.

I am not being original either. The argument is the same one that has been used in various forms across Illusionist/Eliminativist literature that I can find on the internet. Eliezer Yudkowsky used a version of it many years ago. Even David Chalmers, who is quite the formidable consciousness realist, admits in The Meta-Problem of Consciousness that the argument is the best one he can find against his position.

The argument is simply this:

If we are able to explain why you believe in, and talk about qualia without referring to qualia whatsoever in our explanation, then we should reject the existence of qualia as a hypothesis.

This is the standard debunking argument. It has a more general form which can be used to deny the existence of a lot of other non-reductive things: distinct personal identities, gods, spirits, libertarian free will, a mind-independent morality etc. In some sense it's just an extended version of Occam's razor, showing us that qualia don't do anything in our physical theories, and thus can be rejected as things that actually exist out there in any sense.

To me this argument is very clear, and yet I find myself arguing it a lot. I am not sure how else to get people to see my side of it other than sending them a bunch of articles which more-or-less make the exact same argument but from different perspectives.

I think the human brain is built to have a blind spot on a lot of things, and consciousness is perhaps one of them. I think quite a bit how if humanity is not able to think clearly about this thing which we have spent many research years on, then it seems like there might be some other low hanging philosophical fruits still remaining.

Addendum: I am not saying I have consciousness figured out. However, I think it's analogous to how atheists haven't "got religion figured out" yet they have at the very least taken their first steps by actually rejecting religion. It's not a full theory of religious belief, or even a theory at all. It's just the first thing you do if you want to understand the subject. I roughly agree with Keith Frankish's take on the matter.