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I don’t think this is entirely wrong, but we’re coming off a long period of intolerant liberal groupthink, where if you strayed too far from the progressive Dem

I don’t think this is entirely wrong, but we’re coming off a long period of intolerant liberal groupthink, where if you strayed too far from the progressive Democrat orthodoxy, you risked excommunication from your liberal friends and family, getting fired from your job, etc. Where you’d be labeled evil or a fascist for daring to question progressive policies, which may have been well-intentioned but often had terrible second-order effects. Where the administration strictly restricted what could be said by news media and on social networks under threat of political and legal retribution. So this isn’t a new phenomenon, or a conservative phenomenon, and it hasn’t nearly reached the levels we’ve been living under from the left. The liberal tech cohort was just unbothered by these issues when it aligned with their ideology.

techpeach 2y ago
I would sort of argue it probably is a conservative phenomenon, but small-c conservative. It serves to entrench or protect a set of views and not allow a classical liberal approach, whether or not that’s from a “left” perspective or a “right” perspective. In fact I think a lot of the dynamics playing out right now make more sense from the lens of the Democratic/left leaning parties being more “conservative” and right leaning parties being more change/reactuonary
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FireBeyond 2y ago
You parrot all this like there hasn’t been a huge conservative groupthink push at exactly the same time. Don’t act like cancel culture is an “intolerant liberal” thing (although that does make up part of it). I’ve lost count of the number of businesses and celebrities that have been canceled and protested by the “intolerant conservatives”. Not to mention, some of those causes have been wholly made up. Nobody has been forbidden from saying “merry Christmas”, no matter how many times your uncle shares some post about it in Faceboook.

techpeach 2y ago

I would sort of argue it probably is a conservative phenomenon, but small-c conservative. It serves to entrench or protect a set of views and not allow a classical liberal approach, whether or not that’s from a “left” perspective or a “right” perspective. In fact I think a lot of the dynamics playing out right now make more sense from the lens of the Democratic/left leaning parties being more “conservative” and right leaning parties being more change/reactuonary

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FireBeyond 2y ago

You parrot all this like there hasn’t been a huge conservative groupthink push at exactly the same time. Don’t act like cancel culture is an “intolerant liberal” thing (although that does make up part of it). I’ve lost count of the number of businesses and celebrities that have been canceled and protested by the “intolerant conservatives”. Not to mention, some of those causes have been wholly made up. Nobody has been forbidden from saying “merry Christmas”, no matter how many times your uncle shares some post about it in Faceboook.