It’s one thing to have differing views, but I’ve seen enough attempted reddit migrations to be relieved that the popular communities in the fediverse so far haven’t been about crazy racist stuff or other extreme right bullshit.
I am also glad that I’m getting away from reddit’s general political shitposting, which was more left leaning. You couldn’t have any proper discourse on there, and even I with my generally more left leaning views recognized that.
Do you prefer having a centralized authority dictating your exposure to content? What prevents you from personally blocking instances you disagree with and allowing others to make their own choices? Is it possible that the idea of critical thinking is discomforting and it’s more convenient to be shielded from diverging opinions, rather than exercising personal discernment?
The community itself is kindly asking you to fuck off with its comments and downvotes, no central authority needed
EXACTLY. Downvotes and disagreement are the cornerstone of a functioning human society. It shows that we’re engaging in a discussion where various perspectives are presented. What I’m advocating for is not an echo chamber where everyone bows to some transient and fluctuating ideal of “correctness”, but a platform for the diversity of thoughts and ideas. So, the downvotes don’t bother me, but rather embolden the importance of speaking what I believe to be true and attempting to understand the beliefs of others. If people like me don’t speak up then we will just create echo chambers of intolerance on both sides of the spectrum. Debate me, prove me wrong. Downvotes don’t prove me wrong, they only prove discomfort and anger. Despite engaging in several discussions, I’ve yet to understand the benchmarks being used here for branding someone a ‘nazi’—a very strong term used liberally here and even against me in another thread for sharing views similar to what I’ve expressed here. I shouldn’t be called a nazi for believing in individual autonomy, it discredits a persons entire argument if they can so easily warp a terrible insult like that just to fit their own narrative. The ease with which people advocate for authoritarian censorship, despite having personal control over their content exposure, genuinely worries me. I find it unsettling how readily people will relinquish their intellectual freedom.
This is the approach I support. don’t like certain content? block, downvote, move on. don’t demand that everyone else be prevented from seeing it.
Blocking a person or instance still allows the bigotry to spread.
The problem here is what gets defined as bigotry and who gets to define it? I was called a nazi for expressing the same opinion I’m expressing here. Do you think that might be a bit much? How long until the bubble of acceptable thoughts and opinions shrinks so much YOU get defined as a nazi?
Your argument is known as the “slippery slope fallacy”, @Kantiberl.
Edit: I’m guessing it’s a bug, but I can’t get this comment to reply to the right person.
It’s not a fallacy when it has already slipped to calling all Republicans (or even people who wish to hear their opinions) nazis and fascist. Why don’t you think it will slip further?
Yeah, it’s weird.
Why do people think that?
It’s such a mystery.
One of those enduring conundrums of the universe.
Will ever figure out why Republicans keep getting called facists?
It really is one of life’s unsolvable riddles.
How could anyone come to such a conclusion?
I guess we’ll never know.
Oh no it’s true, not all republicans are Nazis.
Some are just sympathisers.
Yep that is true.
Who defines what counts as “bigotry”? I think the guys over at beehaw are extremely bigoted. does that mean that we should prevent everyone from speaking with them simply because I think they’re bigots?
Fuck off to your sad shithole, nobody has any obligation to be nice to Nazis. To the contrary, every decent person should feel obligated to strongly tell them to fuck off. You don’t have a space here, we don’t want you here, you are not welcome.
I’m not talking about letting nazis be here, I’m talking about not calling everyone you don’t like nazis.
I know what you pretend you mean, nobody is falling for that.
What I pretend I mean? Why would you even say that?
Like, you mean, a website? That’s what you mean by “centralized authority”, right? A website? With its Terms and Conditions, following the applicable copyright and IP laws, following the relevant laws of the jurisdiction it operates in? Yeah, I’m fine with that.
If you’re not, go to Exploding Heads. They welcome you. They want you.
We don’t.
I don’t want exploding-heads. I would have blocked the instance myself if it hadn’t been blocked already. My issue is I don’t like having content blocked FOR me because I’m a functioning adult that can make my own decisions about what I see and think. You should be careful with how quick you are to cede control of what you’re allowed to see to others. Might make you pretty susceptible to hate and give you a false sense of reality.
Oh, I see. You want 4chan.
Well, good news! 4chan exists! Go there.
That’s not the same and you know it. Your hostility and closeminded attitude only shows me how important it is for people to be allowed to speak. I’ll stay here and keep giving my opinion regardless of your (or anyone else’s) hostility. I think it’s important to speak for what you think is right, and I’ll continue to do just that. I hope you continue as well. Try doing it with less of a bullying attitude though, it’ll help your case.
Oh, is 4chan too much freedom for you? What happened to your whole “no rules, just right” attitude?
It’s sounding more and more like you don’t give a single fuck about seeing this kind of content; you want to force us to see this content. All the places you could go to get it, and you’re still arguing that we should have to see it too or we’re not free.
You’re right. We’re not free. We’re sad, pathetic, chained little sheep beholden to a “central authority” that doesn’t allow hate speech. Run while you can! Flee, quickly! Or you, too, might get consumed by the woke mind virus and start thinking that maybe the Jews are ok people!
I like how you’re acting like you aren’t toxic yourself
When did I say that? I’m very toxic towards people who are cool with the view that I should be either “sentenced to death” or “hunted with dogs”.
Oh, you’re not cool with it, you just want to force me to listen to it anyway. That’s so different.
Go back to 4 chan, otaku.
I’m not an unreasonable person. I just wanna chat, share my thoughts, share what I’m into, without being censored to hell because some perpetually offended people took offense at regular everyday human things, or noticing things going on in society and thinking about what might cause such.
I don’t want to send people death threats, I don’t care to say the slurs everyone knows are slurs (but fuck you if you’re gonna declare regular speech to be a slur, or medical terms to be a slur).
I just wanna be able to talk to people online? why is that so hard for people to accept? Why should I be literally banned from civilization simply for acknowledging the medical science on my own diagnosed medical condition; merely because some perpetually offended morons were offended by science?
Why should I be silenced, simply for wanting to discuss things without blindly believing idiots with money?
Are those exploding-heads guys dicks? sure, probably most of them are. are they correct about what they’re saying? I don’t know, I’d like to talk to them and hear where they’re coming from, and tell them about my own thoughts. why do you feel the need to get in the way of that discussion when you aren’t even a part of it? if you don’t wanna chat with those guys, why is it so hard for you to just use the block button? why must you prevent everyone from speaking with them?
I genuinely do not understand that viewpoint, and no one who is on the side of “censor everyone” seems to want to explain it. They’d rather just block/censor/ban you and shut down the conversation entirely. why? are you afraid you might be in the wrong?