To my knowledge, the concept of “conservatism” is the will to conserve, preserve past values that are seen as superior. While I don’t agree with this either, this community has almost exclusively posts about fearing new things and trying to show them as evil. Evil migrants, evil new generations, evil new sexualities, whatever.
I do not see any “values” in it, only fear. Rejecting migrants is not based on morals or values that are rational, but on fear. Same for the rest. Which leads to the question, what is the point of this community? It does not lead to debate, people calling it out as fascism on one side (which is quite justified as the root ideas are seemingly identical) and the other side just saying that it’s wrong and that’s it. There’s no debate of values, as there are no values to debate about.
I do not agree with the concept of conservatism, and I couldn’t care less if this place is forever doomed to be downvoted in oblivion. But if you actually want to do something else than fear-mongering, even if you insist on talking about conservatism, then maybe it would be a good idea to refocus the community on actual ideas, and not the typical far-right speeches of hatred and fear that already flood a lot of media.
Of course I believe that it would be better to reconsider opinions that basically encourage the worst of humanity; but even aside from that, there is more to do than to replace every possibility of a conversation with the (stereo)typical “immigrants bad, jesus good, gays evil” speech.
I just have a hard time believing people are spitting about you in the modern age.
When Growing up in the Bible Belt with an openly gay person in my social circle didn’t ever cause an issue. This is back when homosexuality was still a crime in many places.
I would say your experience is very unique in 2023 and it’s nothing I’ve ever seen or experienced. It’s nothing any of my friends have mentioned in their personal lives which normally would come if they were routinely being persecuted or assaulted with a deadly weapon.
So it just leaves me puzzled.
You don’t have to keep lying. No one here believes you, but it doesn’t fucking matter anyway. You don’t get to use your ignorance and naive conservative experience to claim that bigotry doesn’t exist.
Everyone here believes me. It’s a liberal lie that you are repeating.
https://www.idahostatejournal.com/freeaccess/opinion-the-great-party-switch-myth/article_e887152c-4bdc-11ed-9ad0-e701c65f7cbd.html
Bahaha who flies the rebel flag and cries about their heritage when Confederate monuments are taken down?
Oops, sorry, I made you think
The disagreement button shows people are not believing you. You haven’t walked a single day in a queer person’s shoes, let alone a set of conservative shoes in a conservative area.
Ah like a child you seek approval by anonymous people.
I have walked with queer people in conservative areas. Hate to break it to you sunshine. Being queer isn’t something new. We had queer people when I was growing up in the Bible Belt.
People just like to claim to be victims when often it’s their own actions that draw the ire.
No, I’m stating that your claim of “everyone believes me” is obviously false.
The rest of what you said is just bullshit.
Let me rephrase that. Any conservative would believe me.
The rest of what I’ve said is true.
You got ~11 downvotes. And only your original upvote is the one on it. I highly doubt that every single person who downvoted your comment was a leftist.
Thanks. Do you have something of value to add to the conversation or are you just here to troll ?