I don’t have much of a problem either way as I don’t think I’ll be engaging in political discussion on this website past this post but it seems like any sort of non-left wing opinions or posts are immediately trashed on here. That’s fine. There’s clearly a more liberal audience here and that’s okay. I just don’t want Lemmy to become a echo chamber for any side and it seems to be that way when it comes to politics already.
Mostly making this post just to drum up discussion as I’m new here.
Edit: Thanks for the rational replies. I was expecting to get lit up for even mentioning this topic lol.
This is exactly how I feel. My lifelong best friend was raised Republican as a devout evangelical Christian, and even he switched to a Democrat when Trump won the primary.
I don’t want to be hostile to people seeking genuine political discourse, but I just don’t see that coming from the right. I see ongoing attempts to oppress, disenfranchise, and dehumanize vulnerable populations, and very little else. I understand we’re supposed to accept that whatever conservatives believe is a legitimate political opinion purely by virtue of so many people believing it. But I just can’t get there when the thing we’re supposed to accept is the dehumanization of people who are relying on us to be allies. I don’t reject conservatives out of hand because i value intolerance. I reject them because they do.