Echo Chamber

Monday 23 April 2012 - Filed under Uncategorized

It turns out that, despite all of the hand wringing liberals do about accepting those with whom one might disagree and prosthelytize about tolerance are far less likely to do either than conservatives or independents, and really just want to be part of their own little echo chamber in which all voices sound the same as theirs, and difference of opinion doesn’t exist. Pew Internet:

Politics can be a sensitive subject and a number of SNS users have decided to block, unfriend, or hide someone because of their politics or posting activities. In all, 18% of social networking site users have taken one of those steps by doing at least one of the following:

• 10% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because that person posted too frequently about political subjects
• 9% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because they posted something about politics or issues that they disagreed with or found offensive
• 8% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because they argued about political issues on the site with the user or someone the user knows

5

• % of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because they posted something about politics that the user worried would offend other friends
• 4% of SNS users have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on the site because they disagreed with something the user posted about politics

[. . .]

Liberals are the most likely to have taken each of these steps to block, unfriend, or hide. In all, 28% of liberals have blocked, unfriended, or hidden someone on SNS because of one of these reasons, compared with 16% of conservatives and 14% of moderates.

Tolerance indeed.

2012-04-23  »  madlibertarianguy