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I'm also old enough to remember /r/chimpire and other explicitly racist right wing subreddits who had massive support, well before the rise /r/the_donald. Hell,

I'm also old enough to remember /r/chimpire and other explicitly racist right wing subreddits who had massive support, well before the rise /r/the_donald. Hell, I even remember discussing the organized stormfront propaganda raids. To me, crying about the lack of conservatism is just code for "people don't follow my ideologies exactly, therefore I'm being oppressed." I follow plenty of subreddits where there is plenty of conservative thought.

devmunchies 9y ago
> people don't follow my ideologies exactly, therefore I'm being oppressed Thats a nasty little remark. Keep it civil.
- WJW 9y ago
  Why is that uncivil? A lot of online discussion seems to be exactly this.
  - travmatt 9y ago
    It's especially funny considering the argument of the person calling for me to censor my thoughts is the same person crying that conservatives are forced to censor their thoughts.
  - hitekker 9y ago
    I would imagine the comment was more to convey "don't hurt my feelings" than to encourage civility, which is a more difficult concept. For ideologues, good means rational means civil means moral means <insert political ideology>. Once all words boil down to <ideology> or <not ideology>, a person can't express or precisely articulate ideas, which manifests in incoherent language.
LyndsySimon 9y ago
> To me, crying about the lack of conservatism is just code [...] For some, sure. But there are those of us who are not conservatives who share the view that conservatives have been subject to ubiquitous censorship. I'm an anarchist, and honestly share about as much with the left as the right ideologically. The behavior of the left today sickens me, though. Even after the election of Trump - who himself is not traditionally "conservative" - has not seemed to have changed the way the left sees the right. The right is not a racist, homophobic, misogynist minority. They are a majority (albeit a slim one), and their views are both less extreme and far more commonly held than seems to be believed by the left.

devmunchies 9y ago

> people don't follow my ideologies exactly, therefore I'm being oppressed Thats a nasty little remark. Keep it civil.

WJW 9y ago
Why is that uncivil? A lot of online discussion seems to be exactly this.
- travmatt 9y ago
  It's especially funny considering the argument of the person calling for me to censor my thoughts is the same person crying that conservatives are forced to censor their thoughts.
- hitekker 9y ago
  I would imagine the comment was more to convey "don't hurt my feelings" than to encourage civility, which is a more difficult concept. For ideologues, good means rational means civil means moral means <insert political ideology>. Once all words boil down to <ideology> or <not ideology>, a person can't express or precisely articulate ideas, which manifests in incoherent language.

LyndsySimon 9y ago

> To me, crying about the lack of conservatism is just code [...] For some, sure. But there are those of us who are not conservatives who share the view that conservatives have been subject to ubiquitous censorship. I'm an anarchist, and honestly share about as much with the left as the right ideologically. The behavior of the left today sickens me, though. Even after the election of Trump - who himself is not traditionally "conservative" - has not seemed to have changed the way the left sees the right. The right is not a racist, homophobic, misogynist minority. They are a majority (albeit a slim one), and their views are both less extreme and far more commonly held than seems to be believed by the left.