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.”?

  • MidnightPocket [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    11 days ago

    Good-faith, nuanced discussion is only possible within cohorts of like-minded people. While echo-chambers often are annoying insofar as the common talking points become trivial to the already initiated, it is this exact initiation process and fomenting of the “party-lines” that allow for people to find others to engage in nuanced discussions finally becoming confident that the conversation is not being conducted in an adversarial manner.