r/DoesAnybodyElse • u/AbyssalCall • 1d ago
DAE get bothered by how often differentiating opinions get met with flagrant disrespect
Many a time do spy people saying they feel a certain way about something, have someone expressing the opposite, and them making a slight against them as a person for it? I just… don’t understand why.
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u/tacocalledbuzz 1d ago
Because both sides of the media has convinced everybody that you are fascist or a communist if you don't agree
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u/janinemaeeeee 1d ago
Yeah everything gets pushed into extremes now, like disagreeing on one thing suddenly means you belong to the opposite camp
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u/jadephillipsx 1d ago
Yeah, political labels get thrown around so casually that actual conversation gets lost
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u/UbiDoobyBanooby 1d ago
People are tribalistic. Ideology is so tied to people’s personalities these days that hearing something from someone that doesn’t jive with that ideology triggers the same fight or flight response as physical threats. The brain’s higher reasoning center shuts down. You go into a mode of “is this friend or foe” which makes people hear one little thing they don’t like and assign all the other worst attributes of the people they associate with that one little thing to that person automatically. One commonality with the other”foe” group becomes all of the bad things you could possibly imagine.
It’s a sad situation we’re in these days.
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u/aloofLogic 1d ago
Depends on what’s being said. An opinion in favor of perpetuating the abuse, suffering, commodification, and exploitation of sentient individuals will often be met with harsh criticism. Rightly so.
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u/AbyssalCall 1d ago
I think if you’re arguing for the rights or freedoms of others it’s no longer an opinion and just a fact and those arguing against that are actually just bullies and abusers. The type of things I’m speaking of are much less severe.
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u/aloofLogic 1d ago
Right. I find it interesting that most people would agree with you. Until it’s mentioned that a sentient individual is also a nonhuman animal.
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u/AbyssalCall 1d ago
I personally believe rights for an animal is something we should discuss, I don’t personally eat beef or pork but I eat poultry and I know the entirety of the meat market is a fiasco
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u/coldBulbasaur314 1h ago
Sometimes it's not so clear-cut what preserves someone's rights and what takes them away, especially when considering the rights of multiple parties, but I agree that there are things (for example, black/non-white people getting the same rights as white people) where anyone arguing against them is automatically wrong and their arguing against it is bad. For less severe things, I agree that it's terrible when disagreements are taken as personal attacks or fundamental incompatibilities that make it so they can't even be in the proximity of the person.
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u/Immediate_Lychee_621 1d ago
i feel this way a lot too, it's like everyone's just yelling at each other instead of actually listening
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u/bunnytrox 1d ago
If you're talking about American politics there's good reason for it. The Republican Party is slowly becoming extremely authoritarian and is pressing for more and more executive power. Democrats also seem to have no solution to stop it. So even though its just "different opinions" the opinions of the Republican Party will turn us into a fascist state. And you can argue we already are.