Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoIn lemmy communities, l often come across people who're not only unkind but short of tolerance of an opinion of a different kind.message-squaremessage-square26fedilinkarrow-up113arrow-down137
arrow-up1-24arrow-down1message-squareIn lemmy communities, l often come across people who're not only unkind but short of tolerance of an opinion of a different kind.Vaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.net to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square26fedilink
minus-squarePMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up28·9 hours agoI mean welcome to the internet, where anonymity allows for people to be absolute cunts to each other.
minus-squarestarlinguk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 hours agoAlso: the tolerance paradox. Being anti-trans is not “an opinion people are allowed to have” (I’ve seen that one several times over the past few days). If it does harm, stfu.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 hours agoAs opposed to something like Facebook where a lack of anonymity doesn’t keep people from being absolute cunts to each other.
minus-squareVaelix_Prism@multiverse.soulism.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down5·7 hours agoAbsolutely
minus-squareChristerMLB@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·8 hours agoI don’t think it’s anonymity, I’d say it is the fact that we are not face-to-face, so we don’t get that intuitive feeling of responsibility.
I mean welcome to the internet, where anonymity allows for people to be absolute cunts to each other.
Also: the tolerance paradox. Being anti-trans is not “an opinion people are allowed to have” (I’ve seen that one several times over the past few days). If it does harm, stfu.
As opposed to something like Facebook where a lack of anonymity doesn’t keep people from being absolute cunts to each other.
Absolutely
I don’t think it’s anonymity, I’d say it is the fact that we are not face-to-face, so we don’t get that intuitive feeling of responsibility.
This!