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Sure, there are always outliers and you can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's just the overall impression I have.

(I wasn't sure if !asklemmy@lemmy.world or this community would fit better for this kind of question, but I assume it fits here.)

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I think it's primarily, but not exclusively, a strength. "We need more right-wing posters" is not something I've ever thought of Lemmy.

[-] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Preemptively let me say that I agree, although there is an entire spectrum along which people can hold their beliefs, and then on top of that there is the strength with which they hold them that can vary a lot - including some who are apolitical entirely as far as they themselves may be aware.

Also, recalling the phrase "first they came for..." - remember that WE are the "right-wingers", from the perspective of instances such as lemmygrad.ml, lemmy.ml, and hexbear.net. I am not saying that Truth is subjective, but the definitions of those particular terms most definitely are.

So if they exclude us, and then we exclude "centrists", who themselves exclude people to either side of them... ultimately what does that make us - conservatives ourselves, chasing some kind of ideological "purity"?

Let's get back to me agreeing with you now, but clarifying why: we MUST be intolerant to those who are intolerant of others. However, to those who ARE tolerant... shouldn't we be as tolerant to them as we can stand to be? As in, interact with them civilly even if we do not fully agree with everything they say?

So leftist vs. right(-ist?), I don't care what someone is, so much as I care whether they are tolerant of others. BUT NOT TO THE INTOLERANT (i.e. not the Alt-Right, and also not the Alt-Left that I see hanging out on various Lemmy instances).

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