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Yeah, in that manor it's somewhat like Reddit. Even if you have a clear and explained opinion that isn't the narrarive the masses are trying to push you get down voted into oblivion. Once you get a few down votes, then everyone just goes with the mob mentality that it's automwticqlly bad regardless.
An example would be abortion. I'm pro choice, but I could see how you could argue pro life as a valid opinion, even though I don't agree with it. I'd get lambasted because I'm not hard pushing that pro life is the worst thing in the world ect.
Lemmy reflects real life, I taught for 20+ years and I can tell you in my experience most people think they're incredibly smart and have the solution to everything. Once you challenge them with a valid question or give any pushback, you're called racist, fascist, islamiphobe, ect usually because they're just repeating something they heard from someone, possibly a lot smarter than them (sometimes not), and they never really formed that idea/opinion on their own and don't actually understand it beyond parroting it.
Yep yep. I simply disabled display of votes for me :) they carry little information other than a gauge of popular opinion which is usually not that interesting anyway
thanks for being a teacher. i wanted to be one, but i saw the 'writing on the wall' coming with ID politics and I just decided it made no sense to pursue a career where I'd be punished for doing a good job and people would hate me for trying to educate them.
I was in grad school in 2010 and the kind of crazy shit people, at the graduate level, were saying was scary as hell and it's so sad that... their 'everything is racist, etc. if i don't like it' attitude bled over into the rest of society.
I miss the 2000s when people who did that were considered insane and everyone ignored them. Now they are the norm. I wonder if they even have debate topics anymore like abortion, I would guess in many places they are simple verboten to discuss.