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is Conservative/Right Wing opinions completely unwelcome on Lemmy? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 years ago* by to c/politics@beehaw.org
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I don't have much of a problem either way as I don't think I'll be engaging in political discussion on this website past this post but it seems like any sort of non-left wing opinions or posts are immediately trashed on here. That's fine. There's clearly a more liberal audience here and that's okay. I just don't want Lemmy to become a echo chamber for any side and it seems to be that way when it comes to politics already.

Mostly making this post just to drum up discussion as I'm new here.

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[–] 6 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

What opinions do you mean specifically? The question you asked is too vague to help us sort out the welcome from the unwelcome.

Remember: “lower taxes for businesses” is a mainstream conservative opinion, but so are “children should not be allowed to know of the existence of gay people” and also “Breonna Taylor probably deserved to die” and also “Dr. Fauci is a mass murderer” and also “Trump won in 2020” and also “more brown children should be put in those cages”, etc., etc., etc.

If the conservative mainstream is so hateful and bigoted that most of their opinions would not be allowed on a well-regulated platform, that is not the fault of the platform and it does not suggest that the platform has to change just to accommodate conservatives.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    This reply is accurate and probably one of the reasons why you see entirely different platforms for people from different political positions. This isn't the platforms fault, the fault lies with a lot of factors.

    -The people who have accepted intolerance as a feature instead of a bug in their political party. -The politicians who continue to rile up audiences using dog whistles.

    -The media who allow dog whistles on the air un-critically as though it's legitimate political discourse. Family Guy example

    -Money in politics, specifically Rich people and corporations being allowed to use their pile of money to get whatever they want at everyone's expense.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    One issue is that it sometimes gets hard to discuss something like "lower taxes for businesses" because some people will assume you want to murder all gay people and others come along who actually do want to do that and think they are on you're side...

    When positions are too simplifed into left vs right and all your other positions are assumed to be in line with the left vs. right debate there will never be any real discussion.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    Sure. The people who make that assumption are being rational in doing so, IMO.

    Part of the reason for this is that people use the “lower taxes” thing as an excuse for, for example, having voted for Trump. “Oh no I’m not into all the cruel shit, I’m just a Fiscal Conservative™️” won’t convince anyone because nowadays you can’t vote for “lower taxes for businesses” without also voting for “trans people are all pedophiles”. Check your nearest Republican state legislature for verification of that fact.

    Of course, the other important caveat is that “lower taxes for businesses” is usually packaged with “more deregulation”, which is in itself cruel, always implemented haphazardly, and never promotes the safe and sustainable economic growth that is promised.

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