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> The idea that connecting the world will make it a better place and undo the millennia of tribalism is a romanticized platitude of the 1990s. This only applie
by Galatians4_16 2y ago
> The idea that connecting the world will make it a better place and undo the millennia of tribalism is a romanticized platitude of the 1990s.
This only applies in media that allows censorship, and controls visibility. If it doesn't, the bigots are easy to identify and weed themselves out. If it foes, the bigots can form bubbles, and foster tribalism.
- InDubioProRubio 2y agoInformation wants to be free - the ideology - downvoted into disappearance and death.. the irony..
- chpatrick 2y agoI think you'll find bigotry is actually quite popular worldwide.
- account42 2y agoGood observation. Next step is realizing which "side" is the one holding extremist views.
- conradolandia 2y agoWhat in the cryptofascism are you talking about?
- EricE 2y agoWhy the side opposite of you, of course!
- dyauspitr 2y agoThis is probably an even worse “platitude”. Most people go with the flow so if you’re immersed in a lot of bigotry, you will probably end up being a bigot eventually. Then it just spreads, especially if you couple the bigotry with humor. Bigotry is tribalism and seems naturally engrained so it’s something you have to actively resist.
- account42 2y ago> This is probably an even worse “platitude”. Most people go with the flow so if you’re immersed in a lot of wokism, you will probably end up being woke eventually. Then it just spreads, especially if you couple the wokism with humor. Wokism is tribalism and seems naturally engrained so it’s something you have to actively resist. Funny how well a simple word replacement can work.
- p5a0u9l 2y agoAssuming you’re serious and not just trolling - what even is wokism, aside from a name thrown at people you disagree with? Bigotry is a known, studied phenomenon. Are you saying there is not a natural tendency to prefer one’s own kind and mistrust foreigners? Are you saying that groupthink respects no particular ideology?
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoWokism is a rejection of common sense, exchanged with an embrace of exotic rationalization flowers bred in the left-leaning echo chamber hothouses of academia and Tumblr. You can reduce anything to "a name thrown at people you disagree with", and anything can be "a known, studied phenomenon". Especially if researchers can safely study it when academia is captured by an ideology that's hostile to certain viewpoints. ;D
- itishappy 2y agoWeird, I can't seem to find that definition anywhere. The general council of Governor DeSantis defined it in court as the following: > the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them I have a feeling you're describing a personally held belief rather than a societally accepted definition, which would explain why yours seems to single out specific groups and views you (assumedly) disagree with.
- TSP00N3 2y ago
- breuleux 2y agoFully open and uncensored platforms do not force bigots into bubbles, but they do not prevent them from creating them willingly. If it serves the bigots' interests to form bubbles in order to foster tribalism, then they will. Basically, if there exists a strategy for an ideology to spread under censorship, it is hard to believe that removing restrictions would make it any less effective. Bigots won't out themselves and discredit themselves on an open platform just because they can, they are not idiots.