I have a mental debate nearly daily when I'm here. There are a few users-- and one in particular-- who, in nearly every thread I'm in, especially ones about politics, posts something that I so strongly disagree with in such a sarcastic, snarky way filled with vitriol that I want to block them. I believe these users are older, so I can understand why they're so set in their outdated ways of thinking, but their ideas are downright dangerous in many cases. The quality of their comments is on par with the dreadful ones I see on news websites, but with better spelling. General oversimplification of difficult issues, and always attempts to make these issues into a way to smear some figure on the (American) liberal left.
This is where my dissonance arises: I don't want to censor things, especially censoring the data I intake. I vehemently oppose the mindset of forcing opinions out just because you disagree with them, especially when this person is involved in so many discussions on the site, and I certainly do not want another situation like reddit where users become encased in their own bubbles, ignoring all outside it.
Thought oppression is a terrible evil, even when it's just what you take in yourself, but I don't know how to go about it.... and maybe that's a strength of Hubski, that I have to endure those things and see these awfully thought out, bitter, right-wing opinions. They're just as much factor in the American process as the legitimate, well-argued right-wing opinions, or my own opinions. Perhaps it gives a full perspective, that one should not be swayed into a "left or right" mindset merely from the best philosophers of each, but to see what a majority or minority of those camps truly believe.
In the end I'm still seeing crap that I could solve with a simple action but ideology is holding me back from it (how's that for a cross-section of politics?) How do other users feel about it?