03-03-2021, 08:59 PM
(03-03-2021, 08:53 PM)Dill Wrote: I'm in agreement with the bolded.
I have several times questioned right wing takes on illegals voting and pizzagate, after which the posters disappeared.
Some, like Lucy and Vlad, were banned for their own intemperate language.
Not everyone is really up for dialogue with people of different views. Difference = attack.
Some are just more comfortable in a bubble where beliefs can circulate unchallenged.
A QAnon supporter might feel more comfortable in a forum where everyone already agrees what Hillary does with babies.
A narrative about "leftists" who bully rightists and chase them out of this forum could only prevail
to the degree that forum members eschew any requirement for factual, citable grounding.
There is a question about what constitutes "bullying" as well.
If merely advancing certain political arguments can be defined as bullying, then one has a tool
for dismissing others views without addressing or actually refuting them.
I'm certain it is what has been called "group think" where the "clique" all were accused of ganging up on one poster. Never mind if the responses were on topic or simply to engage the poster.
There is a reason this part of the forum is harder to get in to...but easy to get out of.
It's also why the topic of this thread resonates. At one time or another we will have are beliefs challenged. Some will take that as an opportunity to learn and grow and some will not. Trump supporters have shown over the last 4-5 years that they cannot learn or grow but rather they "know". And the nly believe what Trump says because it reinforces what they "know". That's another reason they are cult like.
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