Let me be real clear: this message board does NOT need conservatives

[DemonTree]

@thorny_locust

A general tendency, maybe. But specific beliefs – including ones considered “conservative” in one election cycle when they weren’t a cycle or two previously?

And people do change their politics over time. Sometimes as adults; sometimes even as older adults.

Of course not specific beliefs. But beliefs, priorities etc - say towards how much of a safety net the government should provide vs people being responsible for themselves and their families - are influenced by this general tendency.

@thorny_locust

If the only argument someone can bring against a conservative’s statement is ‘yeah, you’d think that because you’re a conservative’, I would at least think less of their argument; because that’s not much, if anything, of a counter. If they said ‘I understand that’s the conservative position, but here are three arguments against it’, I don’t see what’s wrong with that. If they said ‘All conservatives are stupid fat-assed hayseeds’ they still wouldn’t be using the word “conservative” as a slur, but they’d have used several slurs as insults against conservatives, and I would think less of them, yes.

What if they said something along the lines of “that’s a conservative belief, I bet you also believe in QAnon/that the election was stolen/Covid is a myth”. Or “you’re a conservative and therefore racist/bigoted/etc”. Or, of course, started a thread with the title ‘Conservatives believe they have the right to kill everyone else’. I hope you’ll agree that that is insulting to a whole group of people.