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this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
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That is a fair point, but I submit its kind of tangential or maybe orthogonal the core topic. The problem of people not being able to discuss controversial topics maturely is not improved by hosting clear bad-faith conversation. That just poisons the well and makes it even harder to hold the good faith conversations.
You don't wring your hands about throwing out the baby with the bathwater when you're faced with a bucket of sewage.
But that's how what I mentioned happens - the vocal users decide that anything that disagrees with them is that "sewage" or "poison", even if it is legitimate, and then you end up with that echo chamber situation. I would think that proper moderation of political communities would ensure that polite, good-faith argument, regardless of the political leaning of the view, would be allowed, but that's not how it often happens because of how moderators and vocal users define what good faith argument is, mostly based on whether the argument agrees with their own view.