How did the former left turn into total cultural puritans?

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[–]Hematomato 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

did something change in american society that made the right and left switch places?

Yes. It happened between 2014 and 2016. Between GamerGate, the Isla Vista "massacre," the Michael Brown shooting, the reaction to Obergefell, and most especially the election of Donald Trump, the American Left decided, basically, that the right wing were just evil pieces of shit and no child should ever have to read their opinions. And they fully embraced censorship.

It seems like the right embraces free speech, revolutionary messages, is anti government and corporate control

No, it doesn't seem like that. I've been on this site six days and several posters on the right are already calling for me to be banned, because I don't hate black people and Jews. And therefore, everything I say, they consider to have been written "in bad faith," and they want my mouth taped over.

The truth is, if you have a partisan bent, you don't have principles. Your only principle is "my party good, their party bad." Partisans support anything that weakens the other party, and that is their only sense of right and wrong.

[–]alexislane 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

That is sad. People should be able to say whatever they want. I don’t care if you cuss me out and call me every vile thing because they are just words and I am not a snowflake

[–]Dragonerne 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Notice how he didn't share a single evidence of people calling for him to be censored?

It's the typical "both sides bad", meanwhile saidit exists as a website because every social media platform silences right wingers. It's just so tiresome.

Also I don't support leftists right to free speech, because they don't support mine. I used to be a classical liberal but I'm not anymore. Not after corona and social media censorship.
Human rights are fake

[–]jet199Instigatrix 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course human rights aren't something universal or gifted from god or something.

Your rights are whatever you are prepared to fight for.

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

[–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is my way of loving them. Tough love.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You're punishing all of us just to get revenge on some people.