Quote (thundercock @ 6 Jan 2022 23:59)
The radical feminist you mentioned was banned for intentionally using the wrong pronoun...while feuding with them publicly. Am I expressing a conservative POV by constantly tagging Caitlyn Jenner and calling them "he?" If Richard Spencer can avoid being banned, I'm sure this radical feminist could have avoided it as well. Instead, she decided to target some transperson and took the bait.
America invented AIDS to get rid of black people, Donald Trump won the election, COVID vaccines will have a high chance to kill you, the Jews architected 9/11, etc. I guess that's the truth that you abide by but I'm quite okay with platforms kicking people off who peddle those kind of lies. Unfortunately, most of that crap is unfiltered because the tech giants would rather make a quick buck than to lead responsibly. In addition, the evidence suggests that conservatives disproportionately benefit from social media. While I'm concerned about the power of Big Tech, I'm not concerned about these kind of people being silenced because they don't bring any value to the conversation and actively harm democracy.
I've been politically homeless for basically my entire life. I've had to ally with Protestant heathens who will burn for eternity, don't believe in evolution, etc. for decades. I don't think it's unreasonable to dump tens of millions of crazies for a group that's a tenth of their size and arguably less crazy. I've warned about the authoritarian left for YEARS but they simply aren't as dangerous as the authoritarian right. The fact that your side thinks that people like me care about decorum is laughable and shows that you're deeply out of touch you are. We despise Trumpists because of their dangerous policies and corruption. Trump could come out with 100 Access Hollywood tapes and I would be unbothered by it.
I can live with all the other points we obviously disagree on, but how the fuck can you say that? How can the AuthLeft side be the less dangerous one although the overwhelming majority of the elites in media, culture, academia, intellectual circles, the federal and state bureaucracy - and in recent years even in Corporate America and the military! - are aligned with them?
If we follow Gramsci and view the struggle for dominance and power in a society as a battle over who attains and maintains 'cultural hegemony', there can be no doubt that the Democratic side and their ideological allies are far closer to said cultural hegemony than the Republican side, particularly in the era of Trump.