mjmjr25 wrote:BoringSupreez wrote:
Yes, Racketboy is more aggressively leftist than the internet as a whole. On none of the other websites I post on do I receive as much hostility for voicing my honest opinions as I do here. And every time someone points out the situation here - because Forlorn and myself are not the first to do this - the denial is always the same.
Thanks for posting this and i'm sorry I haven't chimed in more lately. Honestly, i've just been sort of defeated that I really only post about games here now...or lately, just not at all. For all the patting on the back we like to do here about being welcoming and tolerant - the other forums i'm on are for more open to hearing conservative views.
Hmmm, I'm a little surprised to hear you lumping yourself in with some of the other "conservatives" in this manner. Admittedly, we haven't talked politics, but we have talked religion some and even here I feel like you strive to offer a more even handed and less bigoted approach than other members who are complaining about their honest opinions not being appreciated.
Could be I'm totally off base on that, but unless you say otherwise I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Here's my thing. No matter what your views (or my views) may be, they are far more likely to be shown a manner of respect and consideration if they are presented in a fashion that shows the same respect and consideration you are looking to garner. If you pop in and start running foul about an entire group of people, like some other "conservatives" have done, of course you are going to get some heat for it. I probably wouldn't fall in your good graces by diminishing the value of you or someone you love as a person based on my own beliefs. I think that is really the issue I've witnessed here on the forums. If there is something more at play, I've missed it. Feel free to point it out, here or via PM if you like.
In any case. Let me point out that the only reason I've been encapsulating the word conservatives with quotations is because certain members who aren't you like to hide behind the moniker as if it gives them a right to be racist, homophobic, bigoted, or otherwise intolerant of entire sections of society. While I concur those members do in fact have the right to feel that way, I disagree that they have the right to push it into the faces of people who do not believe the same things. Certainly not under some entitlement of a political or religious belief standpoint.
I've never felt that you personally do this, and I'm certainly not insinuating that at this point. I just don't understand how that isn't the clear issue at hand to anyone without an agenda.
There are other conservatives on the board who speak freely about their beliefs, in a respectful and considerate manner and I rarely see them get lambasted for it. This sort of goes against the whole bias theory. I've had disagreements with some of them even, based on our not seeing eye to eye, however we have been able to manage with some level of tact. Being conservative or even liberal for that matter doesn't have to go hand in hand with being willfully ignorant of the views and life experiences of others.
Just my $.02, no offense intended.
I still got love for you.
