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Lemmy – lacking tolerance and acceptance? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by oyzmo@lemmy.world 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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[–] Libb@piefed.social 4 points 19 hours ago

They’ve got the moral instinct, sure, but zero intellectual grounding.

And since we should not trust 'moral' anything without at least some understanding of it... that's not a good situation. At least, that's how I see it.

We’re seeing it happen in real time. People repeat opinions like they’re reciting scripture

Which is funny realizing how most of them are so hostile towards the Bible or anything religion-related while they're at the same time mindlessly repeating/mimicking (what I consider) the worst of all the religious traits: blind adherence to an ideology/ideal, as well as the refusal to listen to critics.

That’s exactly the kind of bullshit that got USA in the state it is right now.

Can't talk about the USA myself: the world is a tad larger and also includes a few foreign countries, including my own: France ;)

I have literally been called a fascist for telling people to think for themselves.

I have been called many names during my almost 60 years on this planet (fascist not even being the worst), and I learned to not bother: hateful believers will remain hateful believers no matter what, even those who only believe in 'social something' instead of 'god'. They won't change, or just maybe their believe switching from one to the latest trendy one. Meanwhile, I will keep on refusing to blindly adhere to any type of faith, with or without a god ;)