Comment on Hexbear federation megathread

• carl_marks_1312@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You just want me to say more so you can pick it apart, fight, and troll.

  If you know what you’re saying is pulled out of… thin air, then of course the fear of it getting picked apart is understandably there. You know in advance that you will basically have to go into an argument (“fight”) and then, because the fighting aka not writing the check for your claims is making it obvious to everyone else that you indeed pull stuff out of thin air, you get trolled as a consequence.

  The very comment I’m replying to is a good example:

  You made a vague comment (“You’re living in a fantasy world”) and got asked for clarification. You get defensive without providing clarification, and justify it by accusing the enquirer of bad faith. You dont even use some personal anecdotal evidence, but with another vague accusation. The fact that you’re not amusing yourself to actually give a good faith answer, but make such baseless accustion you end up communicating bad faith on your part.

  I find it really hard to not troll you now

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  • honeynut@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the thing about people that aren’t used to about engaging with hexbear - they aren’t used to holding minoritarian viewpoints. They liked that on other platforms (and IRL) they could just throw around the weight of institutional orthodoxy and “common sense” and be validated by crowd affirmation without having to really explain themselves, so when they’re made to show their work, their argumentation really pales in comparison to users on hexbear who have spent years arguing in favor of some the most suppressed political ideologies in the West.

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