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.
Obfuscating hate and intolerance by cloaking it under a “conservative” platform does not make it “conservative” - it is still hate and intolerance. People calling this out are well to do so. I don’t see echo chambers, in those cases. I see people testing the bonds of the social contract.
Well said, although I fully support freedom of speech, I definitely don’t support providing a platform for hate purely for the sake of “both sides”. I sort of align with Dr. Jen Foell there. “If there are ten people at a table with a Nazi and none of them protest, there are eleven Nazis at the table.”
Additionally, I’ve watched a few videos by Innuendo Studios on YouTube that echo very similar ideas to yours. They do point out a number of ways that some alt-right conservatives will specifically push limits and feign opinions on topics purely to anger people on the opposite end of the argument to push those limits and push others beyond those limits. The whole Alt-Right Playbook series was quite good. The are, of course, opinions of the author, but he does give a good list of sources beneath videos where he makes assertions.