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Mono-cultures are forming because as a whole, we are becoming less tolerant. Tolerance is the ultimate challenger of belief because it is gentle. No extremist i

Mono-cultures are forming because as a whole, we are becoming less tolerant. Tolerance is the ultimate challenger of belief because it is gentle. No extremist is going to change their ways because people keep yelling at them to change. It'll be because they see the people they revile living perfectly fine lives and willing to accept them as they are. "B-but they believe these morally reprehensible things!" So what? Have we not all hurt people and been the villain in someone else's life? People get lost along the way. Show them grace. We can't force people into different ways of living, but we can show them.

paulgb 2y ago
I don’t think of myself as less tolerant, but I’ve definitely become less patient with the qanon-level discourse that has come to dominate the reply section on twitter, which used to be a place for interesting conversation. Maybe somebody being patient with them will change their mind, but that’s not what I want to spend my time online doing.
- account42 2y ago
  > I don’t think of myself as less tolerant Most people don't think of themselves as [insert negative trait].
AtlasBarfed 2y ago
Dude, we used to live in strictly segregated ghettos everywhere. If it wasn't ethnically divided, it was strictly segregated by class, and if that wasn't the division, it was religion. The internet for a while was a big melting pot, probably because there was an inherent IQ filter to using the early/medium web. But once the stupids came on, then came the stupid-manipulation companies chasing them, and everything went to hell. Usenet was kind of like this too, until tools made usenet more accessible. I've been too busy to look at Mastodon/Bluesky out of laziness. I never did Twitter. Mastodon may require some technical work to make use of, which may be a wonderful long term thing.
eric_cc 2y ago
> we are becoming less tolerant This is partly true. But also - life is too short. There isn’t enough time in the day to engage socially with people you don’t have a connection with.

paulgb 2y ago

I don’t think of myself as less tolerant, but I’ve definitely become less patient with the qanon-level discourse that has come to dominate the reply section on twitter, which used to be a place for interesting conversation. Maybe somebody being patient with them will change their mind, but that’s not what I want to spend my time online doing.

account42 2y ago
> I don’t think of myself as less tolerant Most people don't think of themselves as [insert negative trait].

AtlasBarfed 2y ago

Dude, we used to live in strictly segregated ghettos everywhere. If it wasn't ethnically divided, it was strictly segregated by class, and if that wasn't the division, it was religion. The internet for a while was a big melting pot, probably because there was an inherent IQ filter to using the early/medium web. But once the stupids came on, then came the stupid-manipulation companies chasing them, and everything went to hell. Usenet was kind of like this too, until tools made usenet more accessible. I've been too busy to look at Mastodon/Bluesky out of laziness. I never did Twitter. Mastodon may require some technical work to make use of, which may be a wonderful long term thing.

eric_cc 2y ago

> we are becoming less tolerant This is partly true. But also - life is too short. There isn’t enough time in the day to engage socially with people you don’t have a connection with.