How Did We Forget How To Have Civil Discourse?

in #philosophy6 years ago

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How Did We Forget How To Have Civil Discourse?

With the rise of the internet, there has been an extreme increase in the balkanization of people. We put ourselves into smaller and smaller groups that will agree with our narrow beliefs and anyone outside the group is given derogatory labels and shunned. These bubbles we create (echo chambers) severely limit our access to contradictory information that might be useful for seeing the world from a broader perspective. Anyone that dares to challenge the dominant belief is attacked without listening to anything they say no matter how true it is.

This divides people up with wedge issues (minor issues meant to drive a "wedge" between groups so they can't consolidate into effective political movements) has been going on for a long time but is now accelerating. These emotionally charged issues that cause people to react irrationally and shut down their ability to communicate with each other in a civil fashion and the media only reinforces the emotional aspects and keeps then at the front of our minds. The truth is all of these minor issues can almost always be solved on an individual or local level and we have much much more in common than not. The establishment needs these issues to stay at the forefront of our minds so we do not realize how the big issues that affect us all could bring us together and actually force changes in the power structures current agenda.

The right and left have devolved to a point that the police are needed to keep the separate or violence will break out. Both sides are being manipulated and stirred into a frenzy so they can not reason anymore. Most of the important issues were resolved a long time ago. People have the basic freedom that comes from the natural order of the world. People don't have the right to be the aggressor but have the right to defend from aggression. We don't have the right to attack other nations but have the right to defend ourselves from foreign aggression. These are the things we all have in common. Things like transgender bathroom and such are non-issues to distract from all the real abuses of our human rights that are going on.

It is time we find allies from across the political spectrum, anyone sane enough to acknowledge these basic laws of nature should be an ally and those that don't should be ignored as the childish attention seekers they are. We should listen to rational people from all different backgrounds/groups and it will become immediately clear that the issues they care about, by and large, are the same issues we do. Where we disagree are insignificant compared to the large threats we face to our natural rights.

It's time we start to branch out to the "others" and treat each other with respect, understand our difference but rally around our shared values. Only by joining together and not letting the fringe wedge issues divide us can we fight against the slow but relentless loss of our freedom.

Thanks for reading :)

Oz

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Why would you tolerate nazi fascist fuckfaces coming into your cities and communities with the direct motive to kill people and preach death and murder? Speaking up to them and threatening them so that they leave is the only responsible action. That's not extremist, that's justice.

In my opinion, you are the "nazi fascist fuckface" now what? What stupid people like you don't understand is you're not the judge of who is good and who is bad. I listen to both sides, and by far the left wing is way more nazi fascists... in the way you use the terms. The right wing want to have their own communities and to be left alone. The leftists, people like you, want to force your will onto others by the end of a gun... this is fascism.

Read a book some time you dumb fuck. Defending white supremacy because someone called you dumb and your feefees got hoited is peak centrism. Get triggered, wittle snowflake. You cant expect to make profit from hate speech without facing strong opposition. Keep crying lmfao

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Read a book some time you dumb fuck. Defending white supremacy because someone called you dumb and your feefees got hoited is peak centrism. Get triggered, wittle snowflake. You cant expect to make profit from hate speech without facing strong opposition. Keep crying lmfao

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Lol the app posted it multiple times . Oops!

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facsist like you want to force your opinions on everyone else, and arrogantly think they are right and everyone that does not believe with them is wrong. This is very hypocritical. It's sad you can not see how naive and ignorant you truly are. I am for humanity, you are the naive idealism that punishes humanity, you included as your dreams harm not only those that disagree with you but they harm you as well. I hope for all groups to enrich themselve to the peak of their culture and share it with others who wish to interact with them, not forcing people into a culture that some fascist wished to force upon everyone.

"Black people shouldn't be killed because of their skin color" is my opinion and somehow you think that it's more offensive than "I want to kill all black people" because you're a dumb fuck without critical thinking skills. Facts dont care about your feelings, kid.

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do you even read what you write? it is so disconnected from reality that its impossible to even respond to intelligently. You make up things then argue against them. Never even understanding the arguments being used against you. You are so indoctrinated you can't understand simple arguments, it's rather sad that you live in a world so divorced from reality. If you want to read and actually respond to the points being made feel free, otherwise have a nice day, and enjoy looking like a psycho to any rational person that reads this.

you seem to be permanently triggered... I have no problem at all with white people taking pride in themselves, and you should not either. I have no problem with blacks, Muslims, Jews or anyone else taking pride in themselves. I have no problem with any of those groups wanting to live in their own communities either. My arguments and opinions are logically consistent across all categories. Yours on the other hand are inconsistent and emotionally driven based on indoctrination, not logic and reason.

You live in a fairy tale. We do not operate in an egalitarian society. Racism exists and you let it go unopposed and cry when you get fact-bombed like a 3rd grader. It's not "censorship" to tell you things that you're too dense to understand naturally.

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That is very funny. You ignore all the racism against whites which is the vast majority of racism. You do this by using Orwellian techniques attempting to redefine racism. That being said racism is 100% NATURAL and LOGICAL. I know you don't understand natural order and spent too much time being brainwashed, but racism is HEALTHY. any group that evolved not to have a strong in-group preference would quickly fall victim to groups that do have strong in-group preferences. Every race or group prefers their group and is "racist". yes you can brainwash people like you to ignore this ingroup preference for a while, but nature has a way of slapping people in the face and they realize how naive they are eventually. you can deny nature and reality, but that does not change nature or reality, it only makes you willfully ignorant.

Lol. White kid triggered at a joke rofl

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enjoy fantasy land... cussing me out... projecting your emotional reaction onto me... while being embarassed by reality... typical stupid leftist thinking they "won" or "triggered" you... its comical how stupid you are. have a nice day :)

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