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• LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gotta love how spending time with like-minded people has now been framed as an “echo chamber.” I blame reddit, since that’s where I first encountered this nonsense.

  I’m fine with my “echo chambers.” We are able to have really in-depth, adult discussions about things like LGBTQIA issues, mental health, and politics without having to constantly swat away a bunch of sea lions.

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Had to look up “sea lion.” That’s something I’ve seen a lot of, but never knew there was a specific term for.

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s sadly ubiquitous. I don’t think a day goes by when I don’t witness several sea lions in the wild

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tucker “I’m just asking questions” Carlson must be the poster child for them.

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    • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sealion in an accusation that rests on assuming someone else’s intentions. You can’t ever know for sure if someone is a sealion, because people aren’t mind readers. I usually see sealioning accusations thrown by neurotypicals at autistic people, because they can’t read our emotions like they’re used to and that freaks them out and they assume hostile intent.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, it could be mistaken for that if a person isn’t paying attention. But the difference between acting in good faith and not is usually pretty obvious as it goes on.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been running into something adjacent, but doesn’t quite fit that description. Basically people use the tactics of Sealioning but the motivation seems to be just reframing the conversation to whatever they wanted to talk about, rather than necessarily pissing you off. It can be just as annoying though.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, that wouldn’t count because they’re just being a standard asshole who wants to control the conversation rather than trying to troll with bad faith questions.

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  • dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You do realize that associating with primarily people who share the same views or values as you is literally an echo chamber right?

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    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sometimes people want to have a conversation without someone with the username DMmeYourNudes wanting to debate them.

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      • dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s an echo chamber lol.

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nope. That term is only used by sea lions and shitlords. It’s one of those terms like “virtue signaling” that immediately lets you know the person has less to offer society than a common housefly or roach.

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      • dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Really inclusive to just reject anyone who criticizes you lol.

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  • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I argue with fascists, exclus, medicalists, and sexists all the time and I’ve never met a sealion. But I have met neurotypical people who expect their sense of cognitive empathy to work on neurodivergent people, and then project all sorts of BS onto them for having a different opinion. IME that term is a dogwhistle for ableism.

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’ve never spent any time on reddit, I take it?

      That’s a whole colony of sea lions.

      Lucky you, but I encounter sea lions all the time. People like Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro have formed entire careers around sea-lioning.

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      • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well see, sealioning is feigning ignorance, and it’s a simple fact that bigots really are that ignorant. I’ve never met anyone who understood progressive issues and still disagreed, except for amoral people who chose to have little investment and wouldn’t bother to engage in sealioning. This idea you’re proposing that there are people who pretend to be ignorant doesn’t make any sense to me. If they are acting like foolish bigots, I choose to believe them.

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• gullible@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s literally a safe space, you absolute sea lion.

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Please go back to reddit

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• Anonymousllama@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sounds like it’s a bit of both tbh

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