Comment on New to lemmy. Is there a version of /r/changemyview?

• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When I first became active on reddit, I admired how few sitewide rules they had and how much free speech they allowed.

  Now they ban debate about one of the most contentious and multifaceted societal issues of the present. What are online discussion forums there for if not to openly and civilly exchange ideas about issues like this?

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  • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Part of the problem is that discussion of this issue in particular was very often not civil and created a hostile environment for users.

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    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Probably true. slatestarcodex.com/…/i-can-tolerate-anything-exce… was written before most people cared much about this but certainly applies very strongly to it. I am fortunately not directly affected by it either way (I am neither trans nor a woman nor have any desire to pretend to be trans in order to get access to women’s spaces) so it doesn’t get my emotions up much to read any side’s arguments; I can see why that may be different for others.

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