I’ve found a few and they seem to be growing as of late:
- questions about Lemmy demographics
- anything discussing negative effects of porn
- benefits of AI
- negative effects of “wokeness”
- critiquing of individuals in trans community
- calling out men as predominant perpetrators of violence towards women
- anything US pro-conservative
One topic that I’ve noticed used to be a nonstarter and is now popular is anti-democrat conversation.
What are other nonstarters you’ve experienced?
EDIT: seemingly asking people what the community doesn’t want to talk about is a nonstarter
EDIT: calling out men as being predominate perps of violence is NOT a nonstarter and accepted within the community. A select few think that’s being a terf but they are wrong.
> Claims they want to start a conversation
> Acts offended when people actually start a conversation about their posts
I’m convinced people railing against wokeness are just AI bots at this point. OP, can you prove you are not a stochastic parrot without saying something silly?
Countering arguments with ad-hominem puts you right up there with AI bots when it comes to providing value to online discussions.
Exhibit A
I’m not even from the Lemmy world instance. I’m from the instance that specifically rails against AI slop. Thank you for being silly.
Do you have anything of value to contribute?
What is your intention with this response? Do you expect me to suddenly give you something you value as a response? That would be silly based on the conversation this far.
You never replied to the question in the post. You just came in with your own silly anti-AI agenda. Essentially showing that this discussion is a nonstarter for you. So I guess this was a valuable discussion after all.
You never replied to the question in the post.
I think you might be hallucinating.
Just say what you’re alluding to
Anything that runs counter or even questions accepted correct answers. Correct answers are extremely american centric and left-leaning.
Yeah the hive mentality is so strong and inhibits progress.
No, most people here are mostly well-off and from rich countries, that refuse to even try to understand other people and their positions. While pretending to be open to ideas and other culturs and views. It has little to do with reality.
I think you should evaluate why people don’t want to entertain these topics.
Even if the answer is “bias”, it’s worth looking into the nature of that bias to find out why people think that way.
However, I’ll save you a bit of time: most of these “topics” are based on a false premise. They are strawman arguments which indicate a misunderstanding of a particular argument/viewpoint. This makes any conversation a non-starter, which is why I suggest forming a more complete understanding of other arguments.
Thanks, but I didn’t ask that and your assertion is based on your own bias/opinion
calling out men as predominant perpetrators of violence towards women
…and children, as well as other men. If there’s violence, statistically, the perpetrator is most likely male. Most people in jail are men too. I guess this only becomes controversial to those who believe group averages apply to every individual within that group.
We have a funny thing going as a society where we say violence is always bad on one hand, and then have men solving things with violence as the plot of all our fiction. If you’re poor, the state monopoly on violence is also not invisible, so the first message seems as hypocritical as it is.
I’d really, really love it if we had a more balanced discussion that could actually reach AMAB people. I do think socialisation is the main problem here.
Yup. It all starts with how we’re raising boys and what societal norms they’re expected to conform to. The main avenues that we give men to receive approval are limited to physical strength and violence, emotional toughness, sexual prowess/penis size, financial and social power and logical aptitude (which is waning as of late).
If you don’t meet these standards then you have to work hard to internally accept yourself and two of the skills men aren’t taught to practice are emotional intelligence and community building, hence the lonely male epidemic and resulting fits of violence.
We need to raise boys differently, and build a society where they have opportunities to build self-worth and have a community to lean on without feeling ashamed to need emotional support.
All that to say that today we have an epidemic of violent, emotionally inept, unsuccessful men.
All that to say that today we have an epidemic of violent, emotionally inept, unsuccessful men.
Do we, though? I’m not sure if you’ve come across the Male Sedation Hypothesis but it basically argues that we should be seeing more violence from disenfranchised young men - and yet we aren’t. The hypothesis suggests that this is largely due to porn, video games, and drugs. Rather than acting out, many men are withdrawing from society into their mom’s basements, supplementing real-life relationships and career success with virtual equivalents.
