What exactly is sealioning?
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It is a bullshit term that was invented by people who didn’t like that their assumptions were being challenged.
It used to be, before ~2014, that if you posted something to the Internet, you obviously were inviting people to civilly disagree with it or challenge your assumptions. Otherwise why would you post it, if you didn’t want to debate it?
Around the time that this term was invented (certainly not coincidentally), this changed. Now people just want to live within their little bubbles of like-minded people, and that’s if they’re not actively trying to censor the other side talking even to each other. Hardly any open-minded people on the Internet anymore.
The term means basically “someone challenges the basic assumptions of my thinking and I don’t like that”. It would be great if we could again have places to debate contentious issues on the Internet, but people clearly don’t want that.
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