JCWortsman said:
BrooksBearLives said:
But the babies are brown, so you don't care as much.
So far in this thread (my second delve into the R&P board) I don't care about brown people and I am anti Muslim/lgbtq/brown people because I lean right. I see this is just like any other online discussion now. I don't think this board is for me.
It's pretty hard to "lean" in either direction on Sicem.
Many people here don't understand true libertarians, who are wildly liberal on some issues and wildly conservative on others. (Ron Paul's vigorous, longstanding opposition to abortion probably helped with that confusion.)
There's a large "Trump inerrancy" contingent, whose views are malleable based on POTUS's latest policies and tweets.
There are a couple of liberals, including a minister who is constantly slammed in the hardest possible way because his theology doesn't suit the fundamentalist hardliners for whom abortion is a litmus test.
There's at least one 8Chan devotee who appears on this forum under a variety of names, often engages in self-congratulatory conversations with himself, likes the posts of his various alt nicks, and advances a clear white supremacist agenda.
And there's one guy who is just hateful to anyone who disagrees with him, regardless of their political persuasion.
Posting here is informative because you learn that some people who disagree with you have good, well-thought-out reasons for their views and votes and that others depend on Twitter for their news and talking points. You can usually find out what the FoxNews outrage of the week is by perusing various forums.
Only a few people posting on this forum "believe in" climate change, which--IMO-is the key issue we face right now, because if we don't address it, things will become chaotic and addressing other issues will either be moot or impossible.
My post in response to the question about "your tribe" was an honest one. Most conservative posting on this forum do not appear to have any compassion or concern for anyone outside of their "tribe." You define your tribe as all Americans, which is laudable. I agree in principle with the idea of taking care of your own first, so you can help others from a position of strength.
The problem I see is that the 40% of Americans who are hard-core Trump supporters do not perceive the remaining 60% of Americans as "their own." In a country where freedom of religion is a core value, some would outlaw Islam, while at the same time advocating for policies I think of as "Christian Sharia"--no abortion under any circumstances, limiting sex education to abstinence only.
It's a frustrating place to post, but you gain a lot of insights into how people get their news, what people chose to believe and not believe. Some posters here think the country's major mainstream news outlets are propaganda organs that regularly publish "lies" about issues such as climate change. These are the kind of people won't believe a factual news report about, say, a school shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, but choose instead to believe the Alex Jones narrative that the Sandy Hook shooting was a huge hoax, and a fair number of them post here.
Don't take generalizations about conservatives personally. Opinions are like noses; everybody has one, some look similar, but no 2 are exactly alike. If more people understood that, this forum might be a more interesting place to have a conservation.