📝 AIATAH for feeling the need to check my friend in the group chat for their dangerous / misinformed opinions

By Infamous-Argument628 • Score: 2 • April 24, 2025 7:44 PM


Is it mean to constantly correct someone when their “hot takes” feel fundamentally untrue, overly simplified, or based solely on IG reels?

What if they’re making sweeping generalisations, misusing words, or saying things like a data breach is worse than genocides like against the Uyghur people — and I just can’t stay quiet?

I’m trying to figure out where the line is between being respectful and letting harmful or ignorant ideas slide. Is it kinder to speak up or stay silent when silence feels like agreement?

I don't want to sound like a know it all but I also feel like I have to tell her all the scandals that are happening in the world have been happening, it's just that she only is caring now because she saw it on a reel.

Even when I suggest tv shows to watch like The Severance, she would rather not watch it and rather take the opinions of others analysis of the show to know what is happening than actually taking things in and enjoying it for herself.

I don't know why it gets me triggered but it's like I cannot let it go without me putting in my two cents going well did you mean beck and call not your becon call. Or having a way of thinking where your feminism of wanting to be looked after by your man is not as empowering as you think. Things like that. I think at the end of the day I just care about the friends I make and so these fresh opinions are affecting because I cannot fathom being friends with someone that decides to be this way.

I know the answer to this but I think I just need to stop feeling like I'm in the right all the time. Been gaslighting myself this whole time lmao

I don't think I'm patronising but I feel like I've pointed out different things enough where I have even reached my limit in pointing things out

Tldr: I care about facts and depth. A friend keeps sharing shallow, misinformed takes, and it's triggering. Do I speak up or let it go?

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