You either are incredibly ignorant of your sources or you’re feigning ignorance to pretend like you don’t know Fox is a terrible source. I’m thinking the latter.
It amuses the hell out of me every time the conservatives whine about their brazen disinformation getting censored, since whenenver and wherever they get an opportunity (including, especially ironically, Facebook), they reveal themselves to be the most cowardly censorious people on the planet.
Everywhere, without exception, where conservatives have control, anything that even hints at undermining their comforting delusions is instantly censored.
But if anybody dares to censor anything they might want to say, including overt and deliberate lies, they wail and cry like the spoiled children they are.
I’m in a right wing Lemmy community run by someone who used to be alt right (and probably is but I muted him when he was spouting racist nonsense at me on another corner of the Fediverse), [email protected], and there is absolutely zero censorship over there. Most of the comments there are by people on the left.
I get what you’re saying here to a point, there are a lot of right wingers who support censorship to varying degrees. Even Trump has spoken in support of some forms of censorship before, even if they didn’t materialize into political policy (“opening up the libel laws” and his recent calls to make burning the American flag a crime come to mind). But it’s not true that every single conservative supports anti-left censorship, without exception.
Dude, conservatives are literally burning banning books everywhere in the country where they have power. They’ve even banned books meant to encourage girls to learn how to code. Real bananas stuff, imo
I appreciate you’re trying to communicate well and you seem authentic and all, but it’s very difficult to take your position seriously when it feels like you’re not trying to challenge your own beliefs. There’s a ton of evidence of conservative censorship going as far back as McCarthyism and interment camps, to rock and roll and rap music, to even burning comic books in the 50s, and that’s just thinking of the US. There’s a very long history of white conservative Christians censoring almost everything popular going back like hundreds of years
As a personal anecdote, my cousin had to break his pokemon gameboy games and burn his pokemon cards because his dipshit mom abusive mother thought they were satanic, simply because her church said so. I got some cool, holographic cards out of it, but I never forgot how messed up that was
I mostly agree with what you’re saying here, with two caveats. Firstly, I don’t think that books with sexually explicit images should be able to be checked out by children in libraries. (To be fair to you, I think we both know the current book banning thing goes beyond that.) There’s a limited amount of censorship that I do agree with the right on, but it’s for edge cases like that. I’m on the right and I oppose this flag burning policy, like I opposed Trump’s call to “open up the libel laws” and like I opposed the right wing calls to bring back the fairness doctrine during the Obama administration, as well as flag burning bans that were being called for at the time.
Secondly, that Satanic Panic stuff was more religious fanaticism than political propaganda, I don’t think we’ve seen the two syncretized to this level in a long time. Just because the religiously zealot nuts are MAGA people today doesn’t mean that religious fanaticism has always been tied to the hip with mainstream-ish political activism.
I mean, it’s called Conservative, with an explicit goal of sharing right wing articles. It’s the equivalent of articles about TV shows getting removed from a videogame community.
Look at the comment sections. People are allowed to say pretty much whatever they want down there.
I think its primary value is the fact that you can search for groups. Groups are a bane for people who are online but want to do things with people IRL, but unless you’re willing to go to Discord, there’s no better place for groups than FaceBook. I don’t think there’s a directory for GroupMe groups despite how many people use it to organize get-togethers.
Flag burning was a big deal in the 60s. I remember calls for a Constitutional amendment gaining traction back in the 90s (maybe 80s?). The controversy was all over the news for some time and the right considered your take on it to be the litmus test of “true American.”
Trump’s reaching decades into the past, for what it currently a non-issue. It’s not desperation, it’s senility.
It actually is a common occurrence, since the U.S. Flag Code specifies that burning is the preferred method of disposing of flags that are no longer fit to display.
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Completely anecdotal, to be fair. I’ve seen some videos of veterans as well as first generation immigrants complaining about the desecration of the flag.
Then I stand by my position that the people who give a shit about this are weirdos. Because, believe it or not, being a veteran or an immigrant doesn’t shield you from being a weirdo.
Symbols are an effective way to manipulate people emotionally. It provides people with an identity making it feel like they are fighting for their own ideals and not someone else’s.
As the planet is turning into a hostile desert, as the wealth divide is reaching new highs, as people are dying while trying to jump through hoops imposed by their health insurance to get the life saving treatment that they need, as people working 40+ hours a week can’t afford rent for themselves, let alone raise a family, as conglomerates are abusing the crap of their dominant position on the markets, as autocraties are feeling emboldened to use violence to impose their will on the free world, finally, we can count on Trump to really be connected with the people and know what their concerns really are.
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