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Originally Posted by btimbit
People just don't like when their wacky views get challenged and they can't back them up, so instead they claim they're bullied and go peddle their nonsense elsewhere.
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Except that it’s often perfectly normal, middle-of-the-road opinions that get dogpiled here. If you don’t recognize how out of step many of the commonly-held attitudes expressed here are, you should get out and talk to more people IRL. Or for a more empirical context, look at opinion polls and election results.
Any community where someone like Slava is cast as a conservative with whacky views is comically out of touch with mainstream opinions. He’s about as milquetoast, middle of the road Calgarian as you get.
The real problem isn’t the disagreement. It’s the fact certain highly active posters have proven they cannot disagree without making things personal. Back when these forums were moderated, they were suspended again and again. But now they run rampant, spitting snark and taking personal shots, because members who agree with them politically are happy to give virtual high-fives to antagonistic d-bags so long as they’re being antagonistic d-bags for the right team.
It’s tribalism all the way down. How often do you see someone in these threads thank a well-supported post by someone who holds different political views, or call out a low-effort, antagonistic ####-post by someone who’s on the same team?