from what i see, we (the US) have more tolerance than we've ever had. there is of course a very loud tiny number of people crying about that exact tolerance and doing their best to destroy tolerance, but they've always been here.
you're gonna feel the way you feel, but i personally think much of this is similar to the "kids these days don't know good music. its not rock like zeppelin!" type nonsense.
the kids are alright. kids spending their freetime with like minded friends online is not terrifying, its not nefarious, its not spooky. i just listened to a podcast that was discussing the early days of dungeons and dragons. apparently adults used to spaz out that kids were playing dnd. it sent the parents into a weird type of satanic panic--they were convinced that if kids spent so much of their freetime playing dnd with their friends it was going to turn them into murderers or something. some of the recordings of the parents were wild. they were fully convinced this activity would turn little johnny into a satanic flying demon or something. it was just kids spending their freetime time with like minded friends (a dnd bubble if you will).
> The "push a button to silence dissent" thing is what is expanding everywhere.
this is no different from someone turning and walking away from the racist nutball screeching on a street corner. its the literal same outcome. there is nothing wrong with being able to walk away from a quack screaming at you on the street, just as there is nothing wrong with pushing a button and blocking the racist nutball screeching at you online.
it doesn't even have to be a screeching nutball on a street corner. there are a million reasons why we may just not like another person. when we don't like someone, we just turn and walk away and go find our friends. this is normal. this is totally normal.
from what i see, we (the US) have more tolerance than we've ever had. there is of course a very loud tiny number of people crying about that exact tolerance and doing their best to destroy tolerance, but they've always been here.
you're gonna feel the way you feel, but i personally think much of this is similar to the "kids these days don't know good music. its not rock like zeppelin!" type nonsense.
the kids are alright. kids spending their freetime with like minded friends online is not terrifying, its not nefarious, its not spooky. i just listened to a podcast that was discussing the early days of dungeons and dragons. apparently adults used to spaz out that kids were playing dnd. it sent the parents into a weird type of satanic panic--they were convinced that if kids spent so much of their freetime playing dnd with their friends it was going to turn them into murderers or something. some of the recordings of the parents were wild. they were fully convinced this activity would turn little johnny into a satanic flying demon or something. it was just kids spending their freetime time with like minded friends (a dnd bubble if you will).
> The "push a button to silence dissent" thing is what is expanding everywhere.
this is no different from someone turning and walking away from the racist nutball screeching on a street corner. its the literal same outcome. there is nothing wrong with being able to walk away from a quack screaming at you on the street, just as there is nothing wrong with pushing a button and blocking the racist nutball screeching at you online.
it doesn't even have to be a screeching nutball on a street corner. there are a million reasons why we may just not like another person. when we don't like someone, we just turn and walk away and go find our friends. this is normal. this is totally normal.
we'll be ok.