The belief that every issue has two sides, and that we should "hear the controversy", is a vulnerability of our media system. It has been exploited by the far right and has led to its rise to power.
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Posit: what they call "echochambers" aren't a bad thing, because there's not 2 sides to every issue. If 85% of us believe that minority X are people, and 15% believe that X have no right to life, it's ok for the 85% to live in an "echochamber" of their belief in shared humanity
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Suppose the minority X is "unborn humans" i.e. fetuses, The pro-life movement can for sure sit in an echo chamber (or by lack thereof put their fingers in their ears and go la-la-la) but that doesn't mean the pro-choice movement may have some good arguments to support their ideas
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So, the majority rules? What if the majority thinks minority x have no rights?
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Why does that remind me of the Swastika?
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To resolve any controversy one needs to drill down to where the parties have to agree to disagree on specific propositions. /1
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"Class One [disagreement] is when two people disagree and neither can explain to the other person's satisfaction that other person's point of view. A Class Two disagreement is when each can explain to the other's satisfaction the other's point of view." Bob Taylor of Xerox PARC
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Which is the same reason that there is no inherent superiority to a "centrist" view. Being in the center of a skewed debate doesn't make you correct.
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This is a very weak argument because it relies on the extreme case of racism . The concrete case against echochambers is what has happened to US politics nowadays: there are only toxic discussions, and the arguments of the 'other side' are strawmanned beyond recognition.
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Surely white South Africans where a minority, not the 85%. Echo chambers re-enforce minority opinion.
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Unfortunately a minority in the 85%, let's call them the alt-left, willing conflate theoretical far-right concepts with anyone to the right of the far left. This action ironically creates and powers the so called "far right". So, plz, stop and ask: who are the real Nazis?
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