• VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF98ii6r_gU pretty sure this is the one [from the series] your post made me think of… My take away as relevant here is that it’s not overcomplicated: If your a marginalized person and you know your rights, all the facts and appeals reason will be dismissed by those who buy into the fear-based moral panic propaganda about you, solely on your intrinsic traits.

    That’s not a two-way street.

    Choosing not to engage with such people does not put me in an information silo in the same way that the population influenced by right-wing authoritarianism choose to stand on both sides of a contradiction and refuse to analyze the true root causes of their woes; that you can’t class traitor yourself onto the side of the ultra-wealthy, and that their Supreme Leader will throw them under the bus at the first incentive.

    A person who chooses to protect their energy from such a Facebook uncle, does not consitute a both-sides.

    Not that I went looking for anyone pressing a “both-sides” angle…hoping we can leave it behind in terms of “information silos”