Seeing some posts talking about fediblocking turning Mastodon into a "filter bubble." No. We absolutely do not need abusive or fascist views to have a high level of intellectual diversity. Full stop. That hate can fester somewhere else.
After 20 years of social media, the experiment has been run. Hateful people are unconvinced by rational argument, so there's no point engaging with them.
This is a rotten, disingenuous, meritless argument, from A to Z.
Fascism is to be defeated, not debated.
@sieri @sean Worse than that, most people don't even know that they are not seeing everything and they are rarely (if ever) confronted with differing views because we aren't aware of what the "others" are seeing on their wall/feed/whatever.
Resentment against the "other" therefore has a chance to grow and fester unopposed before confrontation inevitably occurs, and by then it's too late for rational discourse.
Is it even possible there's anybody who's not aware of right-wing views?
Most sane people are very aware and have rejected them.
Rational discourse ends the minute someone claims that people of any identity don't deserve to exist, or to have the same rights as anyone else.
Fascists can and will speak on their own platforms, I don't have to listen.
@sean @sieri You might be aware of the general details of right-wing views, but if you don't know the specifics of the talking points of the day, you can't debate the issue with, say, your next-door right wing neighbor, can you?
In the past, if an extreme point of view made its way into the news, everyone knew about it. Everyone could talk about it and extremists would know that they are a minority. Or at the very least, they could have a chance to update their worldviews along the way.
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