Comment by johnnyanmac
5 days ago
>There is no morally justifiable reason why having mainstream conservative viewpoints (which is to say, ones held by a very large fraction of the general populace) should bar someone from non-political participation in non-political subreddits.
Rule 1 of site guidelines includes:
>Communities and users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.
And given the conservaive mindset as of late in the US against trans people and undocumented workers, you can see the issue you run into.
I do disagree with banning off-sub behavior, though. you can use it to tag users and keep a closer eye on them, but moderators moderate their own space, not the entire site.
> And given the conservaive mindset as of late in the US against trans people and undocumented workers
I disagree that they have the beliefs you ascribe to them, broadly speaking. Again, we are talking about the mainstream. Views held by a very large fraction of the general populace.
>I disagree that they have the beliefs you ascribe to them, broadly speaking.
Very well. But their party leader does, and few in the party or even among constituents don't seem to push back on it at all. At the very least, they do not oppose the actions and statements taken and made.
> But their party leader does
I disagree with this as well, and I specifically disagree that the "actions and statements taken and made" commonly cited to evidence the point actually evidence the point.
And I have been disagreeing about this since the 2015 election campaign. The pull quotes, to me, very obviously did not mean what they were represented as meaning, and I remain convinced of this.
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