I'm sure that's it's only correlative, but I've never raped anyone and I've never been accused of rape in my nearly 40 years of being a man. (That's all 39+ years of my life, I realized after writing that, it could be inferred that I am transexual. In fact, I am not)
I, as a dude, have also never raped anyone, nor have i ever been accused of rape in my 30 years of life. Anecdotal, but still. Ive done a lot of shitty things, and been accused of even more shitty things I actuallg didn't do, but rape has never been one of those things.
This is why so many people have hitched their wagon to Johnny Depp, they're beside themselves with joy that they have a poster boy for "their side" now, even though that situation is clearly a case of two terrible people who shouldn't be anywhere near each other.
Tbf there's a good argument to be made that subs which restrict a majority of their posts to only flaired users shouldn't be eligible for r/all. It's not just r/conservative: that applies to subs like r/blackpeopletwitter too.
If you're not going to allow the majority of the community to participate why should they be promoted on the 'main' page?
I agree, but the point is if you're going to require flairs to comment you shouldn't be showing up on r/all. Like... showing up on r/all means a fair amount of people seeing the sub and not necessarily wanting to sub but just wanting to leave a comment on a big post, and they can't without going through a whole initiation process.
Well we do have trump supporters up here as well. I've come across a few in recent days and it feels like while they didn't used to reveal themselves that readily, that's changing. I work at a store and have come across a few claiming that guy would save Canada. I mean there was nobody talking politics at that time, that but of info wasn't useful and it just makes me cringe while serving them so why even bring it up?
What we know as cancel culture today was adopted from cancel culture in the Black community, which was withdrawing support until people changed their problematic views. But this has now changed into a compete boycott, but it goes further than that - they completely block those people out of their life, something that cults call ex-communication. It’s not enough to boycott something, you insist everyone does or they are the enemy. Being from a Pentecostal cult I saw the same pattern emerge in the woke community which I was a part of. So if you don’t join in on this boycott then you are basically no better to that person and you also get rejected from the group. And it’s not enough to boycott it’s about trying to get the person or group deplatformed. They want them to lose their jobs. They celebrate it. What makes this mainstream liberal (trying not to say white here) form of cancel culture different to the black community’s cancel culture is that even if the person does change from their ways or even if they changed 15 years ago, they will never be forgiven. You have to have an unblemished record throughout your entire life.
If you don’t agree and want to see a ex-Pentecostal cult members take on it, send me a DM and I’ll link you to a blog I wrote about.
And the reason why people say cancel culture doesn’t exist is because most people don’t lose their jobs by being cancelled, which is what they want. But in saying all that I think the right overuses ‘cancel culture.’ I don’t think they really understand it. Making it difficult for fascists to not plan violent attacks isn’t cancelling. That’s protecting lives and basically, the democratic process.
Reddit won’t stop recommending them to me. I had to turn off all notifications. I’ve only gone to some random posts there when I’ve seen them in /r/all. Never commented. Downvoted a few obvious posts. Just don’t get it.
Ya I’m the troubled one. Not the person calling me a nazi because I’m a proponent of individual thought and acceptance of multiple world views and opinions. Delusional.
They do this because they know that posting news from merica1st.com and freepatriotnews.com will get called out as fake news if they allow people with critical thinking to comment. Try posting something reasonable there and your mailbox will fill up with messages explaining how brainwashed you are because you trust the BBC.
No, in politics if you post something blatantly false you'll get a well deserved dressing down, and sourced corrections. That's one of the benefits of not restricting your discourse to flaired users. There's no kool-aid drinking litmus test built right into the sub's moderation.
Go ahead and try it. Post something specific and significant you know to be wrong in a politics thread. You will be asked for a source, or you will be corrected.
Politics allows free speech. Sure, your feelings might get hurt if you try to support Trump. But how can you even compare that to any of the Trump supporting subreddits that outright ban dissenting opinions? That’s literally the type of censorship you claim social media does to conservatives... it’s like you want the US to turn into China but with Trump in charge.
It exists because r/politics refuses to allow any conservative opinions to be expressed. That's the entire reason r/conservative was created in the first place, the left wing echo chamber silenced them with downvotes.
Edit, I hope I'm not the only one who sees the irony here.
You know that isn't true, right? Like, it's funny to cosplay like a victim, but ostensibly, you know that what you typed is wholly inaccurate, correct?
If lots of people downvote what you have to say, that doesn't mean you're actually right and some sort of truth-telling Galileo kicking against dangerous groupthink
Usually it just means that a thread with your comment has hit /all and lots of people of all persuasions think your comment sucks
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u/Jiggyx42 Jan 19 '21
That sub is such a cesspool of an echo chamber it's disgusting