I am a right-wing feminist, so reddit has banned me on a number of fronts.

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[–]cfptwceje 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ok, this is clearer now — and thank you for your answer.

(vs. pursuing change for the sake of change)

This is probably the crux of the matter: that, and related positions of caution that you express, should be self-evident.

I feel like the online discourse has been drowned by an army of low-effort adolescents, eager to wave the "progressive" flag and loudly sling shit for brownies and internet points. It feels like an endless mosh pit.

This tinfoil-hat site could very well end up being a place to talk, in these ideologically confused times :D .

The rest of your comment does have quite of a lot of what I would call "right-wing" ideas, which I quite deeply disagree with, so I guess that excuses the basic "left" and "right" designators. Maybe we'll debate them at some point, but freely and at ease.

[–]ech[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What's funny is I didn't start out with a right-wing disposition. For example, if you are familiar with Jonathan Haidt's work (which examines psychological underpinnings of different political orientations), my scores on his exams suggest I should be a libertarian. But I'm very bullshit-intolerant, and there's a lot of totalitarian bullshit being imposed by the "progressive" camp. I have beliefs about race and IQ that are supported by evidence and shouldn't objectively have any moral content -- they're simply empirical assertions of fact that are true, or they're false -- but have been hyperpoliticized.

Current online discourse (especially Twitter, and especially bluecheck twitter) is toxic and has probably hurt democracy more than we can assess.