• Nythos@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Exposure to other viewpoints is good yes, but is it good when that exposure only ever gets you insults hurled your way from the people you’re trying to have a discussion with?

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      exactly. everywhere irl all i see is people debating my existence. i just want one place where i don’t have to think about that. x.x

    • stevehobbes@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Nope, definitely not - which is why I’m not a free speech absolutist. Let those instances sit on an island by themselves.

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      1 year ago

      Is exposure to other viewpoints good when those viewpoints are half-baked straw man hot-takes that the users are just parroting because they heard their favorite YouTuber say it?

      I don’t need to be exposed to yet another dipshit who insists the holodomor never happened. That’s not me avoiding other viewpoints, that’s me avoiding fucking morons.