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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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Well, we were talking about the silly claim of people who left CP because they think they're not allowed to be conservative. But keeping with the example of Slava, I'd say you proved my point though. You're right that he's not some super radical right-winger, that's not why he's often at the centre of these things. He's at the centre because he always gets involved with the discussions, but doesn't always back it up or fully engage in discussion. It's got nothing to do with left vs right
As long as we're using direct examples, let's single out PepsiFree too. We all know who people are talking about when you say 'makes things personal', 'antagonistic' etc. You think he gets on people just because he thinks one way and they think another? I think he just likes arguing and being extremely snarky, it's clearly fun to him. And yeah,
sometimes oftentimes it gets to be too much
Like I've said, I would just argue the problem is a clash of personalities, not political views. Framing it as some sort of leftist problem is laughable.
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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?
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I know I used it as an example already in this discussion, but the gun control thread comes to mind again. Yeah I was getting trolled by people like Duffman but there were plenty of people, including Pepsifree, who were engaging in decent conversation with me despite my right-wing views on the topic.