"Suppose you began to post aggressively on this forum against Christians, Trump, right-wingers, and political conservatives. Suppose you labeled all of these people as morons, fascists cuckolded ex Mormon Trump supporters, Trump-tards, people who are too stupid to debate, people who have nothing interesting to say, and people with impotent rage--"
In other words, suppose I were to reflect the rhetoric of conservative Christians back onto conservative Christians? Rhetoric or humor that I was inundated with the first couple years I lived at my present residence in person, in emails, or through texts? Being called a communist or socialist constantly by people who have never taken a class in economics (and by 'people' I also mean the authors of circulated email content not just my right-wing friend), "libetard" (constantly by my friend), endless fabrications about the next stupid thing California liberals are doing, conspiracy theories about Hollywood liberals eating children by the Q-Trump guy, all kinds of crude sexual humor poking fun at gays or old material that never dies, like the email forwarded to me during the pandemic with a picture of Bill Clinton and Monica and others with photoshopped masks but Monica's has a hole in it. Humor that rarely finds an equivalent in left-wingers, as I've never received a single email of this kind from the left. Accusations, humor and rhetoric that A-Mike engaged in constantly when he could post here -- that kind of posting?
In your opinion, what percentage of this board's members would find these suppositions to be funny as crap - Hilarious?
very low percentage and possibly zero. Most of the regulars are liberals and don't find these kinds of things funny and it takes a certain personality to pull off crude humor that I don't have. However, I'm not a liberal, and so the fact that I appreciate said humor if I feel the target is justified probably can't be generalized to other posters here.
And perhaps more importantly, what impact do you think it might have on an individual person who happens to be a Christian - or an individual person who happens to be a conservative - or an individual person who happens to be an ex-Mormon Trump supporter, about their choice to post here and/or their interest in joining this community?
I think it can go either way. Remember Liz? Doc Cam offended her with a single wise-crack and she left. Up until then she made few attempts at arguments and mostly posted neo-Nazi memes. At one point I was a little worried Physics Guy was going to leave because of how offensive her posts were, as the mods let it go. On the other hand, look at A-Mike. Many conservatives are fired-up culture warriors who are looking for conflict. With the exception of Liz, all the other posters who have been offended and left by liberal cruelty are A-Mikes sock-puppets. If I were to post the way you suggest, then A-Mike would try even harder to get back in so he could respond.
There is a fundamental tension between the two ways you are painting the world. On the one hand, the claim is that conservatives are banned and censured. On the other, conservatives aren't welcomed and leave on their own. Truth Social doesn't exist because a bunch of conservatives felt unwanted and left because liberals were being mean.
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