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However, what they don’t do is convert loads of other people to their way of thinking.
by matthewmacleod 7y ago
However, what they don’t do is convert loads of other people to their way of thinking.
- kerkeslager 7y agoWhat makes you think this? Do you think that Voat, Fox News, InfoWars, etc are somehow less effective platforms?
- matthewmacleod 7y agoThose are also things we should eliminate.
- kerkeslager 7y agoWhat you're proposing sounds uncomfortably like totalitarianism.
- eanzenberg 7y agoWhich is the end-goal of the far left.
- matthewmacleod 7y agoNo it doesn’t. I’m just totally comfortable with a world in which people are educated enough to no longer have to consume these industrial lie factories.
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- pnako 7y agoWho gets to decide what's true and good and what's not? You?
- djsumdog 7y agoNot everyone leads hard left/right. Most people are centrists. So say you want to be a progressive left, but on issue "x" you don't stand with the left. You can't vocalize this because doing so will have people call you "not really left" or "a bigot" or "not seeing past your privilege." You can go two ways. You can not want to leave your political home and double down and go harder left ... or you find dissenting voices. If those voices aren't centrists, they're going to be hard right, and people will start to shift their entire political leanings because they want a political home. People need to be okay with others believing things they don't agree with. Even controversial things. I've noticed people on the left who refuse to be friends with or hand out with people who have different beliefs about certain things .. and that's insane! How do you learn and grow if you cut off everyone with a different opinion than yourself? We're probably all wrong about something.
- potatoz2 7y agoThere's no problem with wildly differing views. The problem is dehumanizing speech. Taking reddit as an example, there's a thriving r/Libertarian and r/guns together with Sanders supporting or communist subreddits. Don't conflate strong disagreements with toxic speech.
- matthewmacleod 7y agoI’m generally pretty respectful of the idea that people are entitled to make their views public. This is healthy. I don’t think this means that everybody is entitled to have their views broadcast on every platform. Presumably we could agree there’s a line somewhere, at which point it’s acceptable for me, as a company, to refuse to allow views which I consider to be over that line to be broadcast on my platform? It’s a position of some security to be able to complain that “people on the left who refuse to be friends with or hand out with people who have different beliefs about certain things .. and that's insane”. I belong to at least one minority group. I’m not even what you’d call “left”, but I’d certainly refuse to be friends either someone whose belief was that a group to which I belong should be denied some rights. I’d probably refuse to be friends with people who had certain other views I find particularly offensive too. Is that strange or unhealthy? I’d find it really weird to be friends with someone who held beliefs I find to be grossly offensive.
- notadev 7y agoSome get woke, others get red-pilled.