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Have you ever been attacked for your views?

Have you ever been attacked for your views?

  • No

    Votes: 7 10.0%

  • Yes -- at most flamed/insulted

    Votes: 39 55.7%

  • Yes -- at most threatened

    Votes: 16 22.9%

  • Yes -- at most doxxed

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Yes -- doxxed and stalked

    Votes: 5 7.1%
  • Total voters
    70
And as bad as it can get on chat forums like this - it is at least five times worse on YouTube. Man!!! People on there can be brutal and flat out psycho.
 
SCitizen said:
I guess this is the question for people with a very wide spectra of views. This is mostly about online experience, but offline experience is welcome.
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Yes, I've also received death threats on other forums because I said Donald Trump supports renegotiating our trade deals.
 
DA60 said:
And as bad as it can get on chat forums like this - it is at least five times worse on YouTube. Man!!! People on there can be brutal and flat out psycho.
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One of the reasons I am not looking for stardom.
 
TurtleDude said:
Actually, the radical left is more likely to engage in violence. Conservative speakers have been threatened and prevented from speaking at liberal colleges by leftwing thugs. I am unaware of leftwing speakers being subjected to the same nonsense. It makes sense because the leftwing mentality is far more similar to the criminal mentality than right wing views are
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Okay.
 
Conservatives have an ethos/basic set of principles they live by. Liberals do not thus, liberals have a more criminal nature they abide by.
 
Bucky said:
Conservatives have an ethos/basic set of principles they live by. Liberals do not thus, liberals have a more criminal nature they abide by.
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Actually, conservatives tend to be more rigid and non-creative in their thinking whereas liberals are the opposite. This is why liberals tend to be more accepting that others have different views than they.
 
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CaptainCourtesy said:
Actually, conservatives tend to be more rigid and non-creative in their thinking whereas liberals are the opposite. This is why conservatives tend to be more accepting that others have different views than they.
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I 100% agree. Liberals are often intolerant.
 
I voted no in the poll. Simply, I've had my views attacked on a regular basis - that's what debate is all about and I welcome challenges to views I've held, long time or new ones. Having your views attacked sharpens your mind and helps you avoid group think's mistaken belief that everyone has or should have the same opinion. As for being attacked personally, I consider that physical, so the answer is no. I tend to avoid discussion of contentious issues in social situations.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Actually, conservatives tend to be more rigid and non-creative in their thinking whereas liberals are the opposite. This is why liberals tend to be more accepting that others have different views than they.
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Which liberals? Certainly not "progressives."
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Check my edit.
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You got it right the first time. Check out cities like Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. They are very liberal and authoritarian. Expressing conservative views in this cities will get you crucified.
 
Bucky said:
You got it right the first time. Check out cities like Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. They are very liberal and authoritarian. Expressing conservative views in this cities will get you crucified.
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No, my correction was on target. We've seen the rigidity and the lack of tolerance from conservatives for a lot longer than just what we've seen from some liberals after the election.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Certainly progressives.
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Based on what? Certainly not on how the bulk of them behave toward those who disagree with them. Not here, not in the media, not on college campuses, not anywhere.

Where are all these tolerant "progressives"?
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
No, my correction was on target. We've seen the rigidity and the lack of tolerance from conservatives for a lot longer than just what we've seen from some liberals after the election.
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Many liberals protesting want to kill conservatives and assassinate Trump.

Notice major assassinating attempts have all been made against conservative Presidents from liberal loons.
 
Harshaw said:
Based on what? Certainly not on how the bulk of them behave toward those who disagree with them. Not here, not in the media, not on college campuses, not anywhere.

Where are all these tolerant "progressives"?
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I'm disappointed in you, Harshaw. You've fallen into the same trap that too many conservatives... and liberals on the other side have fallen into. You focus only on those making the noise, making the news. Let's consider the protests for example. The VAST majority of those who protested did so peaceably and within the rights afforded by the 1st Amendment. If you believe that there is something wrong with that, or overgeneraize ALL progressives to be how you described, then you fall into the category of the conservatives that I was describing.
 
Bucky said:
Many liberals protesting want to kill conservatives and assassinate Trump.

Notice major assassinating attempts have all been made against conservative Presidents from liberal loons.
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Plenty of conservative loons have attempted to assassinate liberal Presidents. Further, protesting is a right afforded by the 1st Amendment, and your idiotic overgeneralizations are just that... idiotic. Unless you can prove that most liberals are how you describe with solid evidence, all you are doing is posting like a right wing hack.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
I'm disappointed in you, Harshaw. You've fallen into the same trap that too many conservatives... and liberals on the other side have fallen into. You focus only on those making the noise, making the news. Let's consider the protests for example. The VAST majority of those who protested did so peaceably and within the rights afforded by the 1st Amendment. If you believe that there is something wrong with that, or overgeneraize ALL progressives to be how you described, then you fall into the category of the conservatives that I was describing.
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I'm disappointed back at you, CC, because one need not be violent to be intolerant, and one can act fully within the First Amendment and still express intolerance for opposing views, as "NotMyPresident" and "LoveTrumpsHate" certainly do. Never would have thought you'd be the type to handwave away criticism of speech with a reference to "the First Amendment," as if I ever said anything about their right to do so. That's cheap.

And I also didn't even mention the protests; I mentioned a wide range of areas where "progressives" are decidedly intolerant of different views, including this place, the media, and college campuses, each with a history going back long before this election.

"Progressive" intolerance of other points of view is hardly just a few "squeaky wheels." All "progressives"? No. But I never claimed that.
 
Bucky said:
You got it right the first time. Check out cities like Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. They are very liberal and authoritarian. Expressing conservative views in this cities will get you crucified.
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Yes, Seattle's hatred of different opinions is so pervasive that there's a wiki article on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Freeze
 
Harshaw said:
I'm disappointed back at you, CC, because one need not be violent to be intolerant, and one can act fully within the First Amendment and still express intolerance for opposing views, as "NotMyPresident" and "LoveTrumpsHate" certainly do. Never would have thought you'd be the type to handwave away criticism of speech with a reference to "the First Amendment," as if I ever said anything about their right to do so. That's cheap.

And I also didn't even mention the protests; I mentioned a wide range of areas where "progressives" are decidedly intolerant of different views, including this place, the media, and college campuses, each with a history going back long before this election.

"Progressive" intolerance of other points of view is hardly just a few "squeaky wheels." All "progressives"? No. But I never claimed that.
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Intolerance abounds on both sides, Harshaw. Just as there is intolerance in expressing opposing views in "NotMyPresident"... which again, is a VAST minority, though loud minority of progressives, there are intolerant conservatives who suggest that those who are expressing those opposing views should leave the US. That is just as intolerant as what progressives are doing. Is it all conservatives? No, as with progressives, it's the vast minority... though a loud minority. And just as you mentioned that SOME progressives are intolerant of different views, we see the same thing with conservatives, in the media, in regarding social situations, regarding LGBT rights, abortion, etc... and we've seen that LONG before this election.

The amount of progressives who present these views is similar to the amount of conservatives who present their own intolerance.
 
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