The issue with echo chambers is that they reinforce people’s existing beliefs instead of challenging them. That often comes with extreme hostility toward anyone who doesn’t share those beliefs.
One more thing -
Why do conversations like this always assume:
The entirety of my life’s experience with conservatives is online or even recent.
That somehow I don’t know what conservatives support. I’m looking at the effects of what they support in the news right now. Just like I did during the satanic panic, just like I did during all their attempts to take away the rights of women, just like I did during my lifetime of watching them try to treat the actual lives of LGBTQ+ like a fucking talking point, just like I’ve done during my lifetime of watching how their policies impact black people, and (since the current group hasn’t yet figured out how to reach back in time and change textbooks) just like I learned during all my various history classes.
So now, when the conservatives in the world are the most openly hateful and bigoted they have ever been in my nearly sixty years, folks are going to scold me for being fucking done with them? Do not want, do not accept.
For sixty fucking years the group of people most obviously and loudly working to make things miserable for the fucking rest of us has been conservatives. WHAT am I going to learn now from them? A deeper understanding for how little they care about anyone not like them? The nuance of their bigotry?
One more thing -
Why do conversations like this always assume:
The entirety of my life’s experience with conservatives is online or even recent.
That somehow I don’t know what conservatives support. I’m looking at the effects of what they support in the news right now. Just like I did during the satanic panic, just like I did during all their attempts to take away the rights of women, just like I did during my lifetime of watching them try to treat the actual lives of LGBTQ+ like a fucking talking point, just like I’ve done during my lifetime of watching how their policies impact black people, and (since the current group hasn’t yet figured out how to reach back in time and change textbooks) just like I learned during all my various history classes.
So now, when the conservatives in the world are the most openly hateful and bigoted they have ever been in my nearly sixty years, folks are going to scold me for being fucking done with them? Do not want, do not accept.
For sixty fucking years the group of people most obviously and loudly working to make things miserable for the fucking rest of us has been conservatives. WHAT am I going to learn now from them? A deeper understanding for how little they care about anyone not like them? The nuance of their bigotry?