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fearout
joined 2 years ago
Nope, but "idk, I don't care to know, everything besides programming and whatever second thing you mentioned is second-class info, I won't google anything cause my time ain't infinite, but I'll spend an hour arguing about that" comes across pretty assholish. And btw, I'm arguing against the anti-intellectualism point of view specifically, not you personally.
No-one knows every word or every thing. But stumbling across something you don't know and figuring it out vs doubling down on your pride of not knowing it are pretty different behaviour patterns.
All I'm arguing for here is persistent curiosity vs ignorance.
I mean, you do you, but you didn’t get hate for “questioning social dogmas” (you didn’t question shit, btw), rather for flaunting your pride for ignorance and being an asshole about it. Rephrase your original statement as a question, and you’ll get zero hate.
It literally took you like 20x longer to have this conversation than it would’ve taken to google the answer. If you worry about your time not being infinite you should manage it better.
“I’m not anti-intellectual about every topic, only the ones I find iffy” is kinda exactly the point here. Everyone has first-priority topics of interest. The issue is being open to understanding other ones.
Edit: the mods deleted this person’s comments, and I disagree with that decision. If someone with a similar worldview stumbles upon such discussions and finds some point in other comments compelling enough to change their mind, that’s a positive result in my book. And removing the other point of view from the comments doesn’t allow people to find associations. The comments should have stayed.
It might be, or it might be not. Unfortunately you won’t know before googling/asking/etc. But hiding from stuff you don’t understand yet isn’t that good of a strategy in general.
It reads a lot like anti-intellectualism, and that never had a positive impact on societies.
And here, ladies and gentlemen, is part of the reason hate crime exists. “Is it something I don’t yet know or understand? Quickly, get me my head-burying sand bucket!”
Yeah, makes sense. I wonder if there's going to be a mute/shadow federation function so that the instance doesn't show up in /all, but you can still subscribe to a community to see its posts on your subscribed page.
Not for this instance specifically, but as in some general functionality.
Looks like it’s defederated from kbin. Its communities don’t show up in search.
Sure. And googling about that climate change hoax is waste of time as well, there’s too much leftist propaganda there. Or stuff about some_group's human rights, these people feel iffy and I don’t want to drive engagement discussing them. Or lets slash women's healthcare because I have my Bible here and there's nothing else I need to know. Earth is flat too btw, why do I need to google what some NASA shill says, it's all CGI anyway.
It's a hyperbole and it should not sound reasonable, but this is what this type of thought process leads to. If you think your topics of choice are immune, you're kinda missing the whole point of this conversation.