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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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[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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?

What, exactly, do you mean by this?

[–] TheChemist@hexbear.net 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I mean that, I have seen lots of people react unfairly to say, the idea of a woman protagonist in games that are going to be released. They seem to be basing their reactions off solely a kneejerk impulse, but perhaps those same individuals might be seeing what they think is a pattern where they think all works with progressive ideas are poorly written.

Edit: I was just throwing out a possibility, based on my limited understanding with how people function.

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

lol no, they aren't

[–] TheChemist@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They aren't what?

[–] AcidSmiley@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

None of these misogynist dipshits are arguing in good faith.

[–] nandos_house_of_glues@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

i would be more open to that idea if all the arguments against femme protagonists weren't that their tits aren't big enough or that they're doing something society at large doesn't consider feminine. i'm probably being too 'black and white' for your tastes but I haven't yet seen one of these complaints that had anything to do with writing

[–] TheChemist@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

I probably should have clarified that I was speculating, making guesswork.