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I'm personally very worried about sentiments like the one you express. The smug complete dismissal of another's viewpoints, complete refusal to even just listen
by kmm 7y ago
I'm personally very worried about sentiments like the one you express. The smug complete dismissal of another's viewpoints, complete refusal to even just listen, generalizing over all people with the same ideas...
Opinions like being in favor of Brexit are not in any sense as fundamentally objectionable and unacceptable even for disucussion as, for example, nazism or racism. Political divisiveness is a significant issue, and behavior like this is only going to make it worse.
- pjc50 7y agoBeing in favor of Brexit a few years ago was defensible - I used to be a moderate Euroskeptic myself. Being in favor of this Brexit here now is exactly what you're talking about: it requires dismissing all the other viewpoints and possible problems, such as the Irish border and what happens to people from whom freedom of movement is removed. "Smug complete dismissal of another's viewpoints" is exactly what the Tory government has done, and exactly why it's got into such a mess.
- iikoolpp 7y agoThis is the same kind of shit as the faux neutrality news reporters are held to on scientific topics. But, suddenly, because it's political we should then listen to their shit viewpoints?
- kmm 7y agoIf you don't want to listen, I can't force you, but what's the point of poisoning the discussion so the people who do want to listen, like me, don't get a chance to? How can you even say their viewpoints are "shit" if you don't know what they are, what the nuance is, the context. Is that opinion informed, or is it from out-of-context snappy soundbites repeated from your filter bubble?