The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy

Re:The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy by tunesmith on Friday September 07, 2018 @01:51PM (#17936240)

There needs to be a pithy phrase for this kind of debate. Kind of like "form over function". Except here it's the desire to focus on the "form" of an argument, over the actual content of the argument. Similar to both-sides-ism. "Is the earth round? Views differ." Some kind of pithy phrase, when repeated, will exhort people to look at the content of the argument rather than just the structure.

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Re:The Echo Chamber Is the Enemy of Democracy by WalterGR on Friday September 07, 2018 @02:19PM (#17936471)

Some kind of pithy phrase, when repeated, will exhort people to look at the content of the argument rather than just the structure.

I understand what you’re saying, but if this unequal silencing is so obviously a real phenomenon and isn’t simply a reflection of the views being espoused - then it should be easy for the author to come up with examples. And it’s not just this author. It’s every author I’ve read commenting on this ‘phenomenon.’ They always say that it’s right-wing voices being silenced, but never suggest what left-wing voices should be silenced that aren’t.

So I invite anyone to suggest the left-leaning equivalents of Nazism and white-supremacy.

(And by equivalents I don’t just mean viewpoints, I mean comparable levels of influence. Some random bloke on the web claiming to be left-leaning and saying that their race is superior to whites isn’t the equivalent of white-supremacy as a movement.)

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