And we wonder why Trump won the election ...
This board is a microcosm of society ... We have the majority of conversation being dominated by left-leaning, narrow minded folks who are held to a lower standard of decorum under the guise of having a "more accurate" opinion ...
Then, as with mainstream media, the few dissenting voices are censored in the form of warnings or bans ...
In the end, we have the Hillary effect where the majority of people in discussion are reinforcing their comrades' opinions, while a groundswell of revolt brews ... We all saw how this situation ends up which is why I am comfortable with it ...
Do I think the Republicans will win the next presidential election? No, given the divisive rhetoric of our president and the come to Jesus moment that the Left had after experiencing the epic L that I described above ... But it gives me peace that the courts are engrained with conservative values for decades and the lethargic bug will most certainly bite the liberal elites down the road - probably 2028 after 8 years of another empty suit Liberal ...
Ninjahood was blatantly insulting other users due to their nation of origin. Niketalker23 engaged in name calling. Both were suspended from the thread. If you think that Ninjahood's xenophobic (arguably racial) insults represent a legitimate political view that's being suppressed, you're essentially proving Mr. Serwer's point.
As I've said many times, I think reasonable people can disagree about matters of taxation, the role of government in society, foreign policy, etc. Racism, however, is not something that reasonable people ought to consider a valid political view.
With respect to the content of the article itself, I think other users have every right to inquire about why, exactly, it is that you're here under a new account name when you claim you've been on NikeTalk since 2002.
You're resistant to volunteering that information, and I imagine you'd be upset if I chose to research the matter and disclose the post(s) that led to the termination of your previous account(s).
If you believe that conservatives have been unfairly generalized, it seems hypocritical at best to act as though progressives want to "expel" or exterminate all White people. I don't recall that being part of Bernie Sanders' platform. (Or Corey Booker, or Kamala Harris, or Elizabeth Warren, and so on.)
I think you'll find that what the overwhelming majority of progressives want is for everyone to have a seat at the table. That's hardly a call to round up all the White people in the way that Trump wants to round up all the "illegal immigrants" and ship them off to their presumed countries of origin.
Progressives don't want an end to White citizenship, only an end to White Supremacism and White hegemony. Is that truly so threatening?
As Patton Oswalt put it in a recent bit about "white genocide" hysteria, "“White people… we used to be in charge of, like, 99.9% of [stuff]. And in recent years, that number has plummeted to 96.4%. We are on the way out." "I used to watch Schindler's List, and that's a great movie, but I could never completely relate to it. But then, The Force Awakens came out, and there was a Black stormtrooper, I was like, holy ___. I totally understand Auschwitz now. I get it. When he took his helmet off and it was a Black guy, that was our Trail of Tears."
As has so often been noted, "‘When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.’
Over the years, we've had a few posters show up, seemingly terrified that the chickens will come home to roost and White Americans will be enslaved or exterminated in retribution for their ancestors' sins (because they don't believe in contemporary racism as anything other than an excuse used by lazy minorities). That often manifests itself as "I read this article that five White farmers in South Africa were slaughtered by Black People. I found the link on a site that I browse often but don't want to talk about - but that doesn't matter because the story is totally real and it's happening. White people are being killed for being White."
Every such poster, to a man, was later caught slipping and posted something overtly racist. T-Bone, CL-1B, Titanium Tea, ryanbbn, Blco02, oneilmatt, and Ben Roethlisberger come to mind, to name but a few.
That you, by your own admission, have been here since 2002, other community members are justified in wondering, "which one are you?"
That's not, I would hope, because the thread's regulars want to run everyone who disagrees about policy issues out of the community. Rather, it's a matter of defending our shared community values and preventing those who have abused our platform to promote racism from doing so again.
NikeTalk is not Facebook. It is not Twitter. It is not Reddit. We're not about "tolerating intolerance" to appeal to the lowest common denominator and welcome the broadest possible audience. Indeed, NikeTalk began, in large part, because those of us who started the forum were fed up with the racist hate speech that became commonplace on the unmoderated message board we frequented in the late 1990's. When we created our own community, we thus required all community members to treat each other with basic respect. Ninjahood and NikeTalker23 failed and will thus sit this discussion out for awhile.
No user has ever been banned for "being conservative" - unless you consider racism, sexism, or homophobia core conservative values.
