No reason to come in blind and expect a warm welcome to a discussion on ideas — Judaka
I get the feeling that many people only respond to anything when they disagree. I've seen very little in the way of people saying they like other people's ideas or adding further to them. — Pfhorrest
I don't have an issue with the left-dominated forum but there are clear double standards in the moderation here. — Judaka
If you post a view which goes against leftist thinking, be prepared for not just debate but unmoderated ridicule and trolling. — Judaka
They act like soldiers on a battlefield. — Judaka
Somewhat recently, I spent a lot of time debating white privilege and honestly, it was just left vs further left and I really think if this forum had a right-wing presence, they would show themselves in topics like that. Racism, economic inequality, pc-culture and so on, so, experience basically. — Judaka
I'm done with this anyways. For all I care, blacks should just go get revenge if white people don't want to listen. Burn this shit down and take it all. — Benkei
I don't really think you have grounds for any of these suspicions but the fact that you've gone for all of them in a matter of 3 posts signals to me that you are pretty intent on discrediting me for whatever reason. Don't you think you've already reached your conclusion and you're just saying whatever you can right now? — Judaka
I am not particularly interested in debating whether the forum is dominated by the left or not. — Judaka
Happy to just agree to disagree, by the way. — Judaka
And that is fine. Just don't take offense when I ask you to back that up on a philosophy board. =P I had no malicious intent to discredit you, just a disagreement of outlook, and to see if you could give evidence of your outlook. — Philosophim
What I'm asking is why you believe the vast majority of posters here have a liberal viewpoint? — Philosophim
You can be to the right and believe in racism, economic inequality, pc-culture, and white privilige. None of those pre-clude left or right thinking — Philosophim
You seem to be focusing on the extremists on the right, which are still a minority and do not capture what a healthy "right" perspective is. — Philosophim
Yes, I may be biased. Yes, my experience might be skewed. Yes, our definitions of left/right may differ. All of this goes without saying. If you had decided exactly what it was you wanted, which now seems to be, proof of my claim that the forum is dominated by the left, then I might have been able to provide it. — Judaka
I can think of several ways to go about it but they're all a lot of work. We can just agree to disagree as previously arranged but your comment here is unfair and so I had to respond, I'm not accepting the "sorry I asked you to back up your claims" or whatever. — Judaka
Ok, I thought you had mentioned you weren't interested in debating this, and tried to end this on a friendly note. You are seeing attacks where there are none. This is exactly my point as to why you don't bring political affiliation to these boards. People get WAY too defensive, and see issues where there is none. — Philosophim
Ok. Lets just agree then. There is nothing wrong with stating an opinion but nothing wrong with me asking to back your opinion — Philosophim
I would hope you would not take offense at my initial request to back up that opinion — Philosophim
So after about a week of collecting results, with a sample size of 35, it looks like the forum leans:
- pretty strongly libertarian
- moderately egalitarian, and
- slightly progressive;
and slightly more than half of respondents identify as "left", while both/neither options (most neither) come in second, and only a minority identify as "right". — Pfhorrest
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