Let me explain the question:

If fox news and religious propaganda are exactly that, propaganda, then they are victims.

If, however, every person is free to listen to what they want and then rant against liberals, migrants, Muslims, Arabs, trans, gays, atheists, you name it, then they are just gullible.

I’d have more patience for a victim than a gullible person.

Everybody is free to believe what they want to believe. What I don’t get is why they have to stir things up and why they believe they are the only ones getting it and everyone else is dumb, woke, a communist or is going to hell. Why can’t they keep their opinions to themselves?

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    People should grow up and take responsibility for their lives.

    That’s the main thing.

    A grown up, responsible person can have opinions, and can change their opinions.

    A grown up, responsible person can spend their day as they want, and can also understand that it is probably unhealthy to watch news a whole day long.

    A grown up, responsible person can utter a rant when it feels neccessary, and can also apologize afterwards if someone got hurt from it.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      People should grow up and take responsibility for their lives.

      We SHOULD all get free unicorns too.

      But if you actually want to fix the problem, as opposed to just should’ing it, that requires that we see these people as victims. And this means we don’t blame the victim, we help them with their situation.

      The wonderful part about the train of thought that you’ve started, is that eventually you realize that people not only need to take responsibility for their own lives, but also need to take responsibility for the society they impose on other people’s lives. And if we’re unhappy with that society, we have to actively do something about it. That is our responsibility. Just as much as it’s our responsibility to fix ourselves.

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      People should grow up and take responsibility for their lives.

      This is something on I don’t agree at all with liberals. When people are manipulated by cult-like technique (or even (social) media optimized to give their brain a fix of dopamine) it’s not about their individual responsiblity but the responsiblity of the assholes manipulating them.