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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)

submitted 1 week ago by TheChemist@hexbear.net to c/chat@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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[–] blame@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure calling yourself a "gray thinker" and accusing others of being "black and white thinkers" is a useful way of framing things. Reddit is very mainstream and so discourse is curated by admins, mods, and true believers to align with what's tolerated by the american bourgeoisie. People also spend time on sites like Reddit and Hexbear for entertainment. Getting into a stupid low-stakes argument for a bit of a dopamine hit probably doesn't really elicit the sort of critical thinking you're expecting people to have in that sort of situation.