• tee9000@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    An actual opportunity to talk about an issue, rather than reinforce my own beliefs. Dont mind if i do…

    Dont you think this is more of an artifact of personalizing newsfeeds and those separated viewpointa clashing with other personalized newsfeeds?

    Every opinion exists, and the internet allows opinions to be magnified without a basis in people’s true opinions. We need to learn how to navigate and develop our social beliefs without fixating on who’s opinion is percieved as majority or being shown the most in media… that includes overreacting to polarized opinions and validating them.

    Real peoples opinions are different than the popularity of memeified opinions. When people talk to each other there is understanding. When people arm themselves with memes instead of forming their own opinions, we are parroting ideas that might be manufactored so we have no choice but to deny meme ideologies unless their merit is unavoidable.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      No I don’t think personalized news feeds really factor into it. The common narrative is directly opposite the lived experience of 18-21 year olds.

      Women graduate highschool more, attend college more, graduate college more, and earn more. Despite all that the narrative is still women need more help because men are holding them down.