# Is this Message Board left-leaning or right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 16, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-message-board-left-leaning-or-right/331377 "2005-11-16T20:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-message-board-left-leaning-or-right/331377/61 "2005-11-20T10:07:22Z")
The board is left-ish by happenstance. The premise is to dispel ignorance, which means challenging established beliefs and examining them to see if they still serve a useful purpose. Conservatives (by definition, I’d guess) seek to maintain established values, thus they face the larger number of challenges. Of course, hard-core lefties can get locked into their dogmatic views as well. We has a guy named **chumpski** around who was (or at least claimed to be) a hard-core communist. His views didn’t go unchallenged (the challenges were detailed and lengthy, in fact). I think the classic “left-wing loony gets shot down” thread is [this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=111345), in which a person (now gone) started with the assumption that eating meat was evil and asking with claimed innocence why meat-eaters were willing to be so evil. Hilarity ensued. Bullshit is bullshit and will be challenged here. The conservatives (at the moment) just have more of it. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-message-board-left-leaning-or-right/331377/62 "2005-11-20T14:07:34Z")
“I am not left-wing or right-wing. I am more middle-of-the-bird.” – Pat Paulsen [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-message-board-left-leaning-or-right/331377.md?page=3)