If we didn’t signal our virtues, nothing would ever happen.
People MUST speak their feelings about things or the very worst things go unchallenged.
What you meant to say is “Let’s not make me cringe by making me think about things that have deeply divisive social consequences in either one direction or another, yet I keep getting bombarded with messages that I need to take a side on this issue, why can’t I just play video games in peace.”
Perhaps, but this is just mutual masturbation, and Lemmy is a total echo chamber. You can challenge things when you hear them, in the real world. In my experience it helps to treat this as a teaching opportunity, while understanding that you can’t bully people into a different point of view. I don’t play video games.
in the real world
An entire generation of people have been all but ruined because their parents raised them saying “Don’t believe anything on the internet, it’s not the real world” and as a result it’s become the place where we all get all of our information, opinions and news and do most of our social interactions, and yet have this “out” we can always pull when it makes us uncomfortable.
Don’t like what some people somewhere think or say? Don’t need to engage or weigh in, retreat to a bubble. Don’t like what someone said about your comment? Say the whole thing isn’t real, call light to the “bubble” while still being in it.
It’s so, so many people. Just avoiding uncomfortable realities, repeating lines that sound like they work to stop arguments or discomfort, not actually engaging with anything in a way that would challenge your own feelings or beliefs.
