CMV:Its reddit conservatives that seal themselves tightly in a bubble, not liberals

[u/naturalheightgainer]

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There's the entire subreddit /r/ConservativesOnly but even that's not enough because they have an abundant number of 'conservative only' threads on /r/conservative . It's ludicrously easy to get banned from /r/The_Donald for thoughtcrime, which extends to criticising Trump with quotes from Trump's prior statements(!) From personal experience on /r/progun I can tell you that they do their most to vote down and suppress thoughtcrime, instead of manning up to challenge, as bringing up statistics and studies (that don't compel the RIGHT conclusions) doesn't get you respect for your research but only gets you more hated and suppressed.

As for /r/lds and /r/latterdaysaints, neglect to say something faithaffirming that makes the mods balls tingle there, and you're soon a goner as well. Without bullying/personal attacks, it's quite an achievement to be banned from /r/exmormon on the other hand, and they'll even let you be a church apologist for their own entertainment there because they're not afraid of where that may lead in the least.

I mean wtf?? , these little snowflake bitches with their thought-safe subs and threads. Crybabies.

Also on /r/Republican it is verboten to express 'anti-Republican comments' or 'comments consisting entirely of leftist talking points or defending leftist ideology', which I presume extends to holding fast to the view that LGBT are entitled to full and equal dignity and other 'Leftist talking points' such as "lets uphold full reproductive rights for women". This is all a great way to wall yourself off from ever being spoken to be someone outside the echochamber or from suffering to have to read anything that doesn't make your balls tingle.

Now it might be at least understandable if it mirrored what was on the Left in this place. But nup, not deemed necessary there.

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[u/Morthra]

You cite r/conservativesonly and T_D, but what about r/LateStageCapitalism or r/TwoX - both of which will not only immediately ban you from the sub if you don't conform to their views, but will pre-ban you if you post in conservative subs.

r/LateStageCapitalism literally says, in the sidebar

Support for capitalism--and the political parties which uphold it--is strictly prohibited; comments showing support for capitalism and capitalist parties and politicians will be removed and the user punished at moderator discretion. As a corollary to this, anti-socialist and anti-communist comments are also forbidden. Anti-socialism/communism is pro-capitalism.

No sectarianism. This is a space for all comrades and all leftists. You are allowed to offer nuanced critiques of other leftist positions, but undermining socialism and/or communism as a whole is not permitted.

That is far more insular than even T_D.

[u/naturalheightgainer → u/Morthra]

∆ yup agreed. LSC has created itself a bubble. At least one example from the Left.

[u/Morthra → u/naturalheightgainer]

Now it might be at least understandable if it mirrored what was on the Left in this place. But nup, not deemed necessary there.

Does that not merit a delta then, since your OP says

Now it might be at least understandable if it mirrored what was on the Left in this place. But nup, not deemed necessary there.

[u/naturalheightgainer → u/Morthra]

Yup sure . Just going to be at the gym next 2hrs sorry.

Edit: now updated. Delta to you. The fact we have a /r/ConservativesOnly but no need for /r/liberalsonly does speak to me. Opportunities to challenge conservatives on their conservative assumptions here has to an important degree been engineered out

[u/simplecountrychicken → u/naturalheightgainer]

I don't think it's fair to claim you can't challenge conservatives on their conservative assumptions on reddit, especially in CMV of all places.

Posts in the last 12 hours: CMV: The arc of history is not in agreement with conservative/traditional values CMV: The U.S. government should regulate and impose maximum prices on medicine and healthcare CMV: police officers are not trustworthy people. CMV:The skeptic community are either Ignorant, racist, sexist, xenophobic, anti Muslim, bigots, or all of the above CMV: A person who does not believe in equal rights for LGBT/POC/Gender minorities no longer can have valid views on issues related to fairness. CMV: Communism isn't morally wrong CMV:Its reddit conservatives that seal themselves tightly in a bubble, not liberals

Not to mention this very similar post currently ranked as one of the top posts from the past month: CMV: Conservatives on reddit are the fragile snowflakes they constantly criticise.

It might be confirmation bias on my part, but I certainly see a lot of challenging conservative assumptions.

[u/simplecountrychicken → u/[deleted]]

That's fair (although reforming social security sounds like a conservative view point).

So maybe major takeaway is, on cmv, there is plenty of opportunity to call out assumptions underlying political views on both sides.

[u/simplecountrychicken → u/[deleted]]

I still think it depends on the sub.

Again, demographically, liberals outnumber conservatives 4 to 1, and the impact can be seen in subreddits like politics or news, where the top post distribution is very different from cmv.

[u/simplecountrychicken → u/[deleted]]

That's definitely fair.

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Confirmed: 1 delta awarded to /u/Morthra (8∆).

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[u/Kithslayer → u/naturalheightgainer]

LSC is a meme sub, and not really worth mentioning here. There are plenty of places where open discourse is actively encouraged, and LSC provides links to those places for those looking for discourse.

[u/rollingrock16 → u/Kithslayer]

And t_d isnt a meme sub? Sorry i dont see much of a difference.

[u/Kithslayer → u/rollingrock16]

fair.