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Come on, in a lot coastal discourse it is practically taboo to mention vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population. Mastodon instances are largely

• antiframe 3y ago
  I am having trouble imagining what you mean. Can you illustrate your point with an example opinion that is held by 70% of the population but is taboo to discuss?
  • ploum 3y ago
    It is funny how, in their own bubble, people assume that their opinion is held by 70% of the population while it is often the opposite (fun fact: more people voter for Hillary Clinton that Trump yet Trump voters believe that they are the majority. Same for abortion where polls showed that a clear majority of the US was pro-choice yet a very loud minority has a lot of political power)
  • murderfs 3y ago
    86% of Americans think that police funding should increase or stay the same: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/03/before-release-of-video-showing-tyre-nichols-beating-public-views-of-police-conduct-had-improved-modestly/ft_2023-02-03_police-conduct_03/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/03/before-re... 80% of Americans think that the southern border should have increased security: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/09/08/republicans-and-democrats-have-different-top-priorities-for-u-s-immigration-policy/ft_2022-09-08_immigration_01/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/09/08/republica... 50% of Americans oppose affirmative action (with 33% approving, 16% not sure): https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/08/more-americans-disapprove-than-approve-of-colleges-considering-race-ethnicity-in-admissions-decisions/pp_2023-06-08_college-admissions_00-01/ https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/08/more-america...
    • jmopp 3y ago
      None of those are really taboo to discuss: police funding has only increased in recent years, Joe Biden has been quietly upgrading security on the southern border since the start of his term, and the supreme court recently ruled against affirmative action.
      • GolfPopper 3y ago
        I've noticed than when people on the internet say "I'm not allowed to discuss X", what they actually mean 99% of the time is "I'm not allowed to be an abusive jerk to other participants". (The other 1% of the time, they're posting off-topic in a tightly focused forum.)
    • pessimizer 3y ago
      Nearly 70% of U.S. adults say transgender athletes should be allowed to compete only on sports teams that correspond with the sexes they were assigned at birth https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/americans-oppose-inclusion-trans-athletes-sports-poll-finds-rcna88940 https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/americans-oppose-in...
      • morelisp 3y ago
        This is obviously not taboo to discuss since every mainstream media source has been discussing it nonstop with virtually no reference to like, actual data, for over a year.
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    • clipsy 3y ago
      Don't forget, in 1967 (the year in which Loving v Virginia was decided), interracial marriage had less than 20% popular support: https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-marriage-new-high.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/approval-interracial-mar...
  • baggy_trough 3y ago
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• guelo 3y ago
  "coastal" is ridiculous. American vs American hate is out of control.
  • morelisp 3y ago
    Americans used to literally own other Americans, while committing genocide against other Americans.
    • pessimizer 3y ago
      That didn't really count, because they all agreed that black people and natives weren't Americans and had no rights they were bound to respect. The real oppression is when relatively wealthy upper-middle class people get criticized.
• ESMirro 3y ago
  It’s amusing you’re perfectly illustrating the OPs point. “Vanilla opinions” is so vague as to be completely meaningless.
• bigbillheck 3y ago
  > vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population. Name three.
• thereare5lights 3y ago
  > vanilla opinions Like what?
• chasing 3y ago
  > vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population. Ooh, ooh, ooh? Like what kind of "vanilla opinion?"
  • mardifoufs 3y ago
    Trans people in sports? Wanting strong borders? Disagreeing with stuff like drag reading sessions? Not American or white or whatever, just stating the obviously less widely supported stuff that may sound uncontroversial to the more terminally online.
    • morelisp 3y ago
      > Disagreeing with stuff like drag reading sessions? What does this mean? Drag queens shouldn't be allowed to read? Like what concrete policy are you saying they can't propose which isn't obviously overreach?
      • mardifoufs 3y ago
        To be clear it's not personal beliefs that I have, just contentious issues I could think of that are far more controversial irl versus online. Also I think the issue is the reading sessions for kids.
        • morelisp 3y ago
          Drag queens reading at libraries is one of those things that's absolutely more controversial online than IRL. Nobody gave a shit until Facebook and Twitter groups whipped it up as a culture war issue, and so far even conservative analysts and judges are like "wtf, this is nothing, you can't ban it" and they've had to shift to broad obscenity bans instead, which do not have popular support.
    • chasing 3y ago
      Ah, yes, the bigoted ones.
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• SSLy 3y ago
  Coastal? Like, related to beaches, tides, or some kind of environmental impact?