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Radical free speech is important and a cornerstone of the US. Yeah, you've got some real shitheads on voat but also a lot of decent people that just don't hold the previously approved PC opinions. The internet was way better before it began to coalesce into megacorps like google, fb, and reddit. Instead of defending free speech they caved to advertisers. The issue w/ that is someone is always pissed off by something and the smallest groups shout the loudest. Now we've got a situation that's gotten out of hand and even regular conservatives are targeted. Voat is basically a concentration camp for free speech online. They've rounded up all the "wrongthinkers" and sent them to one place.

Before reddit and that Mountain Dew (the hitler did nothing wrong naming contest) troll happened /pol/ was libertarian more or less believe it or not. The PC left is Frankenstein and Voat's their monster. Assholes were fewer and farther between online before they all got shipped to the same place.

When you start inventing shit like "micro aggressions" and telling everyone their racist nonstop... I could provide a thousand other examples. The left has even managed to bring back segregation on college campuses only this time they're called "safe spaces" and black only dorms.

The Radical Left and the Far Right are every bit as bad as each other and more alike than they are different. They both have a need to be authoritarian in order to stay in power. (Horseshoe Theory)

Reddit, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc. have no shortage of racists. They've just got the "right kind" in our weird double-standard culture.

Radical free speech is important and a cornerstone of the US. Yeah, you've got some real shitheads on voat but also a lot of decent people that just don't hold the previously approved PC opinions. The internet was way better before it began to coalesce into megacorps like google, fb, and reddit. Instead of defending free speech they caved to advertisers. The issue w/ that is someone is always pissed off by something and the smallest groups shout the loudest. Now we've got a situation that's gotten out of hand and even regular conservatives are targeted. Voat is basically a concentration camp for free speech online. They've rounded up all the "wrongthinkers" and sent them to one place. Before reddit and that Mountain Dew (the hitler did nothing wrong naming contest) troll happened /pol/ was libertarian more or less believe it or not. The PC left is Frankenstein and Voat's their monster. Assholes were fewer and farther between online before they all got shipped to the same place. When you start inventing shit like "micro aggressions" and telling everyone their racist nonstop... I could provide a thousand other examples. The left has even managed to bring back segregation on college campuses only this time they're called "safe spaces" and black only dorms. The Radical Left and the Far Right are every bit as bad as each other and more alike than they are different. They both have a need to be authoritarian in order to stay in power. (Horseshoe Theory) Reddit, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc. have no shortage of racists. They've just got the "right kind" in our weird double-standard culture.

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[–] E-werd 14 points (+14|-0)

I have no rebuttal to this, but I feel the common man is being forced to hold one extreme or the other and that’s no good. In a vacuum, most people you meet in person would end up claiming values that place them near the middle. That’s my experience, anyway.

[–] Owlchemy 7 points (+7|-0)

I agree. I'm more of a middle of the road right wing type myself. Now they say if you're in the middle of the road you just get run over. But to me, my philosophy has always been 'ya only get one shot at this life, so who am I to tell ya how to live yours.' IRL, most people are closer together than apart, I think, as you said.

[–] E-werd 7 points (+7|-0) Edited

Yeah, the key there being IRL. The internet is this magical place where people get to live out ideological fantasies. I think that explains tumblr, 4chan, and voat well enough. However, as we’ve been seeing in the past 5 years or so, these Internet personalities are bleeding into real life. Shits getting looney.

[–] Owlchemy 4 points (+4|-0)

You got that right ... I don't know if it's just the press and media in general pushing it or what, but I've never seen so much hate on either side. It's scary. We used to come together, now that seems impossible.

[–] PhuksNewfag 0 points (+0|-0)

Yeah, the key there being IRL. The internet is this magical place where people get to live out ideological fantasies.

It's not just the internet. In many EU countries you can get arrested for criticizing islam, even though if you were to say the same things about Christians it'd be perfectly fine. For example family guy and south park can make jokes about christians being pedophiles, but you can't make similar jokes at the expense of Islam.

If you ask people about these issues or gender issues etc. you'll find that the opinions in real life are heavily polarized just like on the internet, at least it's the case were I live. Besides if people get arrested for jokes in western democratic countries it has long since bleed out into real life.

[–] PhuksNewfag 3 points (+3|-0)

my philosophy has always been 'ya only get one shot at this life, so who am I to tell ya how to live yours.

That's increasingly considered a radical opinion nowadays, especially if you apply the same attitude to finances ("Who am I to dictate how others spend their money").

[–] Owlchemy 0 points (+0|-0)

It is getting to be a difficult concept to fully endorse myself, too ... some shit ppl do just doesn't make sense. But I grew up in an era when the general feeling was 'it's none of my business' and those who thought otherwise were 'busybodies' - LOL