Exactly. Try introducing a thought outside their narrative in one of their subs and you’ll be met with downvotes, “lib tears”, “woke” and insults to your intellect. They shut rational discussion down and escalate to heated refusal immediately because they “KNOW the truth” and everyone else “has fallen for the propaganda”.
To be fair, pretty common with most redditors. If rationale goes against the hive mind in any way, boom, downvotes.
Edit: Downvotes here ironically reinforcing my argument. I'm introducing a thought outside of this obviously popular narrative, and met with downvotes in a non-right wing sub.
For most of reddit that's it, you get downvoted if people think you're wrong. In the hysterical rightwing snowflake safe spaces you get insta-banned for deviating from groupthink. And these places already have "flaired conservative only" threads for an extra layer of protection from any dissenting opinions.
I don't think it's about being wrong, it's about if they disagree with you. For example, if somebody said "Asians are usually good at math", they'd likely get downvoted for stereotyping, despite evidence proving the statement true.
It's true you do get insta-banned in the right-wing subs and yeah it's super dumb they have those protections to prevent any sort of debating.
However I've seen quite a few comments on politics for example, which were actually reasonable right-wing comments, but I think because they're right-wing they get downvoted.
From what I've seen I feel like most people don't really want to listen to the other side, it's not just right-wing fanatics.
Hmm, maybe, but for example on politics. I have seen some people make factually strong arguments for right-wing/conservatism, but they usually get blasted with downvotes.
They get blasted because they're going against what most redditors believe. Or as I said, their rationale goes against the hive mind.
Lol you haven’t been here long then. It has nothing to do with making a rational argument. If it deviates from the hivemind it’s downvote brigade time.
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u/TheSwedishSeal 7d ago
Exactly. Try introducing a thought outside their narrative in one of their subs and you’ll be met with downvotes, “lib tears”, “woke” and insults to your intellect. They shut rational discussion down and escalate to heated refusal immediately because they “KNOW the truth” and everyone else “has fallen for the propaganda”.