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One of the things the internet has done is make it so that if you have 1 conservative view (even if it's not really even conservative) you're suspected of havin

One of the things the internet has done is make it so that if you have 1 conservative view (even if it's not really even conservative) you're suspected of having ALL of the views. You suddenly become one of the deplorables. Now the deplorables do exist, but not everyone that has right leaning views ought to be labelled that. This used to not be the case. It feels like each year that goes by there's a gap wider than our inflation pushing the two parties further from each other. That has to stop.

happytoexplain 5y ago
As far as my experience goes, this applies exactly as well when conservatives are observing a person with a liberal view. Not to diminish what you're saying - in fact I think I'm elevating what you're saying to further heights of direness. The internet in general streamlines some of humanity's worst social tendencies.
- jimbokun 5y ago
  > As far as my experience goes, this applies exactly as well when conservatives are observing a person with a liberal view. Absolutely. This issue is bi-partisan and affects everyone.
- dpark 5y ago
  It’s not just the Internet. Political views and beliefs have become wildly more polarized in the last few decades. People broadly hate the “other party” far more than they like “their” party now.
raxxorrax 5y ago
Don't know why this is downvoted. Ironically this is a pretty apt observation. Granted, it is true for the other political isle too. There are only the good guy and the bad guys.
otterley 5y ago
99% of conservatives make the other 1% look bad.
- happytoexplain 5y ago
  There is a tendency in groups where, even if the unreasonable representatives become a majority, the reasonable representatives still kind of expect the rest of the world to somehow omit them from criticisms of the unreasonable portion's ideologies (the inverse problem that complements the problem the parent describes). However, casually drawing a bright line between those two groups and assigning a hard ratio to each is essentially an exercise in hostility, especially apparent by reaching for the magic number, "99%".
- rhino369 5y ago
  You missed the point entirely. She's not a conservative at all. You are engaging in the most absurd guilt by association one can imagine. You agree with X about Y. X is bad. Therefore you are as bad as X. That's just a bad argument. "Conservatism" in modern US political parlance is just a bundle of beliefs. The two party system makes a false dichotomy, but that is not how the average person operates.
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happytoexplain 5y ago

As far as my experience goes, this applies exactly as well when conservatives are observing a person with a liberal view. Not to diminish what you're saying - in fact I think I'm elevating what you're saying to further heights of direness. The internet in general streamlines some of humanity's worst social tendencies.

jimbokun 5y ago
> As far as my experience goes, this applies exactly as well when conservatives are observing a person with a liberal view. Absolutely. This issue is bi-partisan and affects everyone.
dpark 5y ago
It’s not just the Internet. Political views and beliefs have become wildly more polarized in the last few decades. People broadly hate the “other party” far more than they like “their” party now.

raxxorrax 5y ago

Don't know why this is downvoted. Ironically this is a pretty apt observation. Granted, it is true for the other political isle too. There are only the good guy and the bad guys.

otterley 5y ago

99% of conservatives make the other 1% look bad.

happytoexplain 5y ago
There is a tendency in groups where, even if the unreasonable representatives become a majority, the reasonable representatives still kind of expect the rest of the world to somehow omit them from criticisms of the unreasonable portion's ideologies (the inverse problem that complements the problem the parent describes). However, casually drawing a bright line between those two groups and assigning a hard ratio to each is essentially an exercise in hostility, especially apparent by reaching for the magic number, "99%".
rhino369 5y ago
You missed the point entirely. She's not a conservative at all. You are engaging in the most absurd guilt by association one can imagine. You agree with X about Y. X is bad. Therefore you are as bad as X. That's just a bad argument. "Conservatism" in modern US political parlance is just a bundle of beliefs. The two party system makes a false dichotomy, but that is not how the average person operates.

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