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Over the years I have had hundreds of left-wing people block me for sincerely asking for the facts in a situation, a situation I agree with them on... I cant recall a right-winger ever doing that (not that they dont have a ton of other issues).
As someone who has and still does lean left I have to say every day i become more and more ashamed of the way "my side" behaves... its depressing to see.
@freemo Blocked here on non-nazi Mastodon? If so, two theories:
I would think you run into very few righties. For various historical reasons, culturally this place is dominated, politically, by the identarian left. One of my least favorite things about the id-left is they sorta don't tolerate dissent. In US politics it's probably the most significant anti-free-speech group. (speech is violence, etc, etc)
Second: we righties here on Mastodon can't really afford to block anyone, we're getting blocked so much that if we did we'd have nothing in our feeds.
> Blocked here on non-nazi Mastodon? If so, two theories:
It has not been an expiernce limited to mastodon in any way.
> I would think you run into very few righties.
Both here and in general I probably run into at least as many if more righties. The reason for it here is that the left is so quick to block people that myself not being an extreme lefty but a moderate has me blocked by the majority of the left and triggered pretty much the whole of the right. So I hear from the right quite often.
> For various historical reasons, culturally this place is dominated, politically, by the identarian left.
Overall I'd tend to agree there is somewhat more left than right on the fedi. But that means little when it comes to my view of it which is clearly tinted by my personality.
> One of my least favorite things about the id-left is they sorta don't tolerate dissent. In US politics it's probably the most significant anti-free-speech group. (speech is violence, etc, etc)
Agreed, which is why we have such extreme polarization, if you are even remotely moderate you will be attacked.
> Second: we righties here on Mastodon can't really afford to block anyone, we're getting blocked so much that if we did we'd have nothing in our feeds.
I mean there are plenty of right-wing instances, explicitly so.. The problem i find is that the right is complete garbage on here just like the left is.. so you probably dont want to hang out with that crowd as it constitutes some of the most obnoxious instances, most of the free speech instances where hatespeech is the norm.
@ech yea sadly there are few moderate right wingers on mastodon, and im sure part of that is because they are treated like extremists by showing any hint of a right lean.
@freemo "free speech instances where hatespeech is the norm" yeah this is what I was getting at by saying "non-nazi Mastodon". There are certainly plenty of instances like that.
And a certain population of non-hate righty instances/users/content, of course.
But if you browse like mastodon.com/explore unlogged-in or whatever, I feel like it definitely has a id-left tilt, at least relative to US' overall political distribution. Just a guess, I suspect maybe you don't see this usually because (a) don't browse there and (b) are blocked by lots of them by this point anyway 😂