I feel much less threatened when I get ratio'd by conservative people than when I do by progressives. I blocked almost nobody this last ratio, whereas time before that I blocked everyone. I'm not totally sure why; I think I imagine right-leaning people have less power to hurt me?
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But also maybe it's cause people were calling me a 'demon whore', which is half completely unrealistic and half accurate, whereas the liberal people call me a dogfucker, which is plausible for a human to do (as opposed to 'be a demon') and also bad in the scope of slander.
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To the extent that I worry a mob someday renders me unemployable, turns my neighbors against me, gets the shelter to seize my dog, demands my parents disown me — I'm only really seriously concerned about the left. To all appearances, they're genuinely trying to coerce suicides.
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yeah... i'm trying to imagine the right doing this, like the communities I grew up around in Idaho, and I legitimately don't think they ever would have, even though they would be annoying in other ways.
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no, the christian forums tweet.
Although I guess it technically wasn't much of a ratio cause the tweet got a lot of likes? But my notifications were clogged full of people insulting me for a day so that's what I'm referring to.
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Because you feel contempt for the dumb conservatives (and the intellectual ones aren't the ones who attack you) but deep down in your heart you still respect progressives and feel some pain when they disapprove of you?
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Maybe? Or something closer to the frame that the progressives feel closer to 'my people' culturally, and the conservatives are 'farther away'. There's something in here that feels distinctly like threat. I don't think I feel conservative-specific contempt at a cursory glance
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I’ve heard (and personally feel) this sentiment from others too. Something about the left is more frightening. I want to say it’s because it tries to impose its will more than the right but that POV feels like it could be letting the right off the hook?
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Yeah, having come from the right I don't think that seems quite right. Maybe the right wants to control actions (e.g., abortion clinics) more, and the left wants to control ideology (e.g., everything is racist), and the left seems more likely at accomplishing their goals?
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Ive felt this before in other aspects. I do agree with conservatives having more ability to hurt you personally and professionally. But I also think progressives gang up on you more about issues.
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