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Lemmy – lacking tolerance and acceptance? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I experience Lemmy as a reflection of many of the problems in the world; there seems to be little effort to understand and respect different viewpoints. Instead of being curious about opinions one disagrees with, the community often feels almost aggressive. People end up in their own trenches. What about trying to be more open and curious about our differences instead?

Apparently we believe in freedom of speech—so long as the speech is something we agree with....

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[+] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Problem is you are now in an echo chamber of left wing hate. Oi course the hate of the left wing is different form right wing - but just at evil

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    That is something (too) many will not be willing to hear. See my other comments: they've been educated in wanting that echo chamber more than anything else.

    Changing that will take hard work and, even worse in our days and age, a lot of patience as it won't happen overnight, not even in a single generation's span...

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    far right: we’re gonna exterminate entire social groups because they’re impure

    far left: we’re gonna get everyone’s basic needs met, and do everything possible (including violence) to stop the far right from exterminating anyone.

    You: I literally cannot tell you two apart

    Incredible, thank you for sharing.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    You really have bought into the echo chamber if you believe that.

    There are bad people on both the right and left wing. However the majority on either side are not bad. Most (on both sides) have not thought deeply about the effects of if their ideas really were done in the real world. (A few have and have decided the downsides are worth accepting, but if you are not aware of the downsides and intentionally accepting of those as the least bad compromise you are part of the problem) We can disagree on which downsides are not bad enough to ignore - but everything has downsides.

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