[vsssk]

Deplatformed conservatives eh? This has got to be one of the oldest conservative tropes.

FoxNews screams conservatives have no voice, while patting themselves on the back for being the most watched cable channel. [1] Rush Limbaugh is the most listened to Radio show in the United States. [2]

Conservatives scream they have no platform on Facebook, yet the top 10 shared links of Facebook are almost exclusively conservative. [3], and you can observe this trend holding over time.

Conservatives have plenty of other platforms to go to. No one is deplatforming conservatives on 4chan, or Parler, or hell, even Reddit.

The 'deplatformed' narrative is a manufactured, and used to drive a persecution complex. Its not real, and used to rile the base.

[1] https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-finishes-2020-as-most...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#cite_note-late-3

[3] https://twitter.com/FacebooksTop10/status/134648457323691212...

[fenderbluesjr]

Regarding reddit, that is plainly not true. If you were conservative minded, it would take all of 10 seconds to realise that the hive mind is antagonist to your beliefs.

I'm not from the US, and from an outsiders perspective, it is clear as day that reddit is liberal and votes democrat, and they think you are an idiot if you do otherwise.

[vsssk]

You can go to /r/conservative right now, and write any crap you want. You're conflating the notion of deplatforming with the notion of a place having a certain political leaning.

I can go comment liberal ideas on Breitbart and immediately be shouted down as a commie CCP bootlicker and be blocked. I guess by your logic that means liberals are getting deplatformed too!

[yawaemworht]

> You can go to /r/conservative right now, and write any crap you want.

You chose the worst example. /r/conservative has been getting brigaded since before this election. One of the reasons for which /r/thedonald was quarantined in 2019. I know because everytime a big news from US get published in my country national papers, i used to open several subreddits in order to hear both sides of the story.

> I can go comment liberal ideas on Breitbart and immediately be shouted down as a commie CCP bootlicker and be blocked.

The same happens on the other virtual side of aisle. And it's not something unique to the US. I'm not American, but in my country the political discourse has been polarized the same way, with one side accused of been Putin's puppet, and those voting for them being accused of being fascists, and the other side now getting accused of being on China's payroll and getting called comunists.

The side controlling the biggest subreddit in my country, is the same that believes in the "russian puppets" story.

If you post from your personal account about some scandal that is on the national newspapers regarding the side they believe in, people start scraping your profile searching for information in order to dox you, and start sending you private messages insulting you.

If you post by using a throwaway because you don't want to risk receiving death threats just for having a different opinion, they start with the usual "this account is new, it's a russian propaganda troll".

The moderators delete threads and comments about arguments that damage their side, and if you politely ask for an explanation for the removal they insult you, ban you and mute you.

They got to the point that when some polital topics became damaging to their side because of huge mistakes that were made, they banned those topics with the excuse that "they bring brigaders and propaganda accounts".

This is not something that's only happening in right leaning echochambers.

And I don't think that this is something that helps keep an healty political discussion.

[happytoexplain]

I'm liberal, and I frequently visit forums that happen to be majority conservative (not to talk politics). The prevailing voices there are antagonistic to my beliefs, to put it mildly. They say out loud way, way worse things about me than simply implying that I am an "idiot". And yet I don't lament that their platform is politically biased and run away and call myself deplatformed. They are calling normal reactions to the things they say a persecution. It's a victim complex, and a deeply hypocritical one rooted in purest hatred for liberals.

[sk5t]

It goes hand-in-glove with the conflicting ideas that "the other side is so stupid and incompetent" while at the same time "the other side is so sly and crafty with their diabolical plans." I'm pretty sure some folks in 1930s Germany used similar tactics.