as a rule, if you feel the need to assume what someone else is saying? don’t!

https://lemmy.cafe/post/10809490

as a rule, if you feel the need to assume what someone else is saying? don’t! - Lemmy Cafe

oldie meme but needed to bring this back due to recent incidents 😭

A large portion of the world is experiencing political polarization. I see the same things happening on Lemmy happen on other social media websites.

The “if you don’t agree with me you must have the exact opposite opinion” approach to debate seems to be more a problem of the participants than the platform.

Pretty much every time I dare to say anything negative about Russia or China I’m swarmed with illiterate tankie lemmings who jump into the conclusion that criticising one empire automatically means supporting the other empire.
Great. Another corpo-fascist centrist who doesn’t understand the Overton Window.