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Does anyone else feel like a lot of the communities on Reddit are utterly lacking in Gray and Grey thinking? Am I wrong for wanting nuanced thinking? (hexbear.net)
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Regardless of what that community is about, a good amount of the members seem to be content with simply repeating existing talking points, making statements with nothing indicating say, maybes or showing another person's perspective. Is Reddit just full of Echochambers?

I admit, even a lot of supposedly leftist subreddits show barely anything more than black and white thinking, something that disturbs me, as a gray thinker. They seem to refuse to think of say, what would lead to someone to at first be a chud. In fact, a lot of those leftist subreddits show signs of being more liberals than leftists.

It makes me think: Am I closer to being a chud than a leftist, if I have gray thinking, which causes me to want to be informed as to why say, a non leftist would be annoyed with corporate run cultural wars? Am I wrong for being troubled by black and white thinking on supposedly leftist subreddits? Am I just projecting by thinking "I would not make so bold a statement."?

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[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I had to repeatedly walk back a friend who was seemingly gleeful at chuds getting Covid and dying, there was a whole Reddit sub for that but I can't remember the name. Had to carefully illustrate that yeah they were ignorant of how dangerous the plague is but that they've also been conditioned for possibly decades that the government is out to get them, coupled with the failings of U.S. healthcare leading them to believe a myriad of theories and sources like the real answer is horse paste.

Reddit is also primed for this type of thinking because of the format of the site, if you go outside of the accepted consensus you're getting down voted into oblivion with no one having to elucidate why a statement may be wrong.

[–] underisk@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

the only subreddit I can remember that's for reveling in COVID deniers' deaths to COVID was (and still is) r/HermanCainAward.

[–] TheChemist@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago

I have had that happen before. I remember sarcasticly thinking "It seems I have angered the hive mind"

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

with no one having to elucidate why a statement may be wrong.

And then they come here and find themselves actually unable to because that part of their mind has atrophied like an astronaut's bones

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

It’s fair to revel in people in power dying of covid after denying covid restrictions, but it’s in poor taste for average people who’ve been brainwashed to think the way they do.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago

Everyone is exposed to propaganda all their lives in this hellworld. They are still responsible for their own actions. They were not just ignorant, but also dangerous to other people and their dependants. It's distasteful perhaps for people to take pleasure in seeing the irony of them dying from something they insisted wasn't real and exposed other people to, but not something I can blame them for.