My experience on lemmy is that the facts are secondary. It’s a slight exaggeration, but if you don’t support someone, you have to oppose everything they do or you are some big supporter of them. If you point out some criticism of them is not based in fact, it’s “why would you defend them?”
It’s much easier if the world is black and white and you’re in a bubble that agrees with that. And so they’ll attack anything that upsets this uniform simplicity.
This doesn’t happen just on Lemmy. This happens on all social media. Everyone has their own little bubbles these days, and you must be 100% dedicated to the cause. Even the mere suggestion that the other side may have a point on anything is considered weakness and will get you labelled as a traitor to the cause. This is not only the state of politics these days, but the state of any topic of controversy: Sex, politics, religion, women’s rights, LGBT rights, anything. You either must be 100% for or 100% against. Try to find a middle ground and you’re just likely to find yourself ostracized by both sides.
My experience on lemmy is that the facts are secondary. It’s a slight exaggeration, but if you don’t support someone, you have to oppose everything they do or you are some big supporter of them. If you point out some criticism of them is not based in fact, it’s “why would you defend them?”
It’s much easier if the world is black and white and you’re in a bubble that agrees with that. And so they’ll attack anything that upsets this uniform simplicity.
This doesn’t happen just on Lemmy. This happens on all social media. Everyone has their own little bubbles these days, and you must be 100% dedicated to the cause. Even the mere suggestion that the other side may have a point on anything is considered weakness and will get you labelled as a traitor to the cause. This is not only the state of politics these days, but the state of any topic of controversy: Sex, politics, religion, women’s rights, LGBT rights, anything. You either must be 100% for or 100% against. Try to find a middle ground and you’re just likely to find yourself ostracized by both sides.
While I agree, it seems especially pronounced here.