Goonhub
10-13-2020, 11:26 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-13-2020, 11:32 AM by vampirate. Edited 2 times in total.)
I for my part found it a place where only militant left views were allowed, where empathizing with moderates or the right got you heat... and were basically not being in the extreme or agreeing with the popular and always far left opinion was frowned upon or shouted down. I am a person who tries to give people a ton of empathy, and benefit of the doubt and was accused of playing Devil's Advocate. But I am also a Bernie Bro and an LGBT person so I wasn't exactly a right winger in there either. I knew people who were afraid to talk in there because they knew they'd get dog piled. I saw regular calls for violence against people on the right and cops.... that's my experience of the channel.
It made me bleak, and it made me miserable, and I am a more happy person for not having access to it.
I know people objected to some of my views. By I tend to be skeptical always and try to give doubt when something seems to confirm perfectly my opinion or expectations. I am super wary of confirmation bias, and as a flaw I may overcompensate in that department. I'll own that. I tend to always be willing to question the popular opinion among my in group.
I know I also got a lot of misery cause I expressed not wanting to vote for Biden as someone who avidly supported Bernie.
I may have been missing the point of the cool zone, yeah, but it seems like the point of the cool zone might have changed in practice to why it was established?
It made me bleak, and it made me miserable, and I am a more happy person for not having access to it.
I know people objected to some of my views. By I tend to be skeptical always and try to give doubt when something seems to confirm perfectly my opinion or expectations. I am super wary of confirmation bias, and as a flaw I may overcompensate in that department. I'll own that. I tend to always be willing to question the popular opinion among my in group.
I know I also got a lot of misery cause I expressed not wanting to vote for Biden as someone who avidly supported Bernie.
I may have been missing the point of the cool zone, yeah, but it seems like the point of the cool zone might have changed in practice to why it was established?