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Originally Posted by jayswin
Republicans in the US started this on social media a few years ago and it's spread to literally everyone. Attacking an opinion is now attacking a person, countering an opinion is now suppressing an opinion.
All opinions are now equal and all opinions must stand uncontested or that person is being deprived of their right to an opinion, for some reason that escapes anyone capable of critical thought.
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Originally Posted by Jay Random
I saw Democrats doing this long before Republicans, and Canadians doing it at least as early as Americans.
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I think it's partially one of the negative effects of social media echo chambers where algorithms ensure that you are almost always only exposed to content that reinforces your own beliefs. When someone then makes a comment and receives a rebuttal their first instinct is to go on the defensive rather than potentially revise their opinion based on new information. It probably occurs in every country, though USA might be an extreme outlier.