Why is this subforum so right-wing?

Thank you; sensible theories like this will go into the OP.

Why aren't left-wing people more passionate?

^ Good old BigPhil

Its weird seeing you without your red gems

The thought-world of the average 18-25yo internet left winger is also a very simple one. You don't think leftists use memes, or call people 'racist', 'fascist', or whatever?

I really don't buy this argument; especially since, until recently, the most prominent right-wingers on here (this subforum) seemed to put the most thought into their posts.

The thought-world of the average 18-25yo internet left winger is also a very simple one. You don't think leftists use memes, or call people 'racist', 'fascist', or whatever?

I really don't buy this argument; especially since, until recently, the most prominent right-wingers on here (this subforum) seemed to put the most thought into their posts.

I think some of the users on this forum need to learn that it's ok to agree to disagree.

The leftist thought-world may be equally simple, but is typically well-intentioned and defensive. For many right wingers, the debate is 'won' for them when they have adequately 'triggered' somebody.

The internet gives a voice to people who would otherwise be dismissed in real life.

It's full of rich kids. duh.

Lol. Just made me think of gulag memes.

I am condemning a bunch of disgusting, mostly uneducated thugs who need to put weaker people down to make themselves feel better. Call it taking the moral high ground if you will...

Of course they do, it's all they do. Right wing is all about shielding a nation from foreign individuals or influence, both of which are considered as bad. Of course right wingers deny this as it outs them as what they are, xenophobic nationalists, but that doesn't change that it is the truth.

I assume by political correctness you mean not being racist, xenophobic, homophobic, or any other toxic attitudes of the plebs - I fully agree with you then!

Those who I demean and berate have well and truly earned it, and still do it every day. You're earning it right now!

It's working just fine for me, you POS

That doesn't really work when people are dieing. Politics is mater of life or death a lot of the time. When you have disabled people dieing due to funding cuts the government behind that is the enemy if you care about these things and it isn't a matter of agreeing to disagree. Some people are just the enemy.

I always feel defensive. Being left wing is like trying to make water run up a hill. It's exhausting. Where as from the outside being right wing just seems like a fun log flume ride down those rapids I'm trying push up against.

Absolute nonsense. If we rewind to your initial comment, you proclaimed - without ambiguity - that "right-wingers" suffer from "narcissism" and a "superiority complex" which is by-product of them being affiliated with right-wing political movements. This is a gross over-generalisation and testament to your own intellectual small-mindedness. Mind, if you do have any evidence that right-wingers "feel the need to put weaker people down", then feel free to provide some evidence for it instead of spewing unfounded hyperbole.



No, it most certainly is not. To understand the right, you first have to understand the political spectrum, which measures political affiliation by one's social and economic adherence. The right can include anyone from libertarians or social conservatives, all the way to totalitarian fascists or nationalistic dictators. Where does the right-wing narrative proclaim that is wants to "shield [the] nation from foreign individuals"? If by that you mean Muslims, or - in the case of the US - Mexicans, then you are conflating two variables which are mutually exclusive. Donald Trump and the "populist" right in Europe are against globalisation, which they believe has furthered the economic interests of large multinational corporations at the expense of ordinary working people. Whether you like it or not, mass unskilled economic immigration puts immense pressure on housing and social infrastructure, not to mention the social implications when it comes to community cohesion and assimilation. The right isn't against foreign immigration, but it is against mass immigration - especially from the third world.



By political correctness I mean being unable to state the obvious as it might offend a demographic who vote overwhelming for their party. Being "racist, xenophobic, homophobic..." is not a by-product of being against political correctness. If you are racist - you are a bad person. If you are homophobic - you are a bad person. There is a very clear distinction between being against political correctness, and being an outright bigot. To give you an example, according to a study by Channel 4, nearly forty percent of Muslims believe a woman should always obey their husbands and more than fifty percent believe that homosexuality should be illegal. Now, are you going to call out Muslims for being misogynistic and homophobic? I thought not. And therein lies the hypocrisy in the leftist narrative.



No one deserves to be demeaned, regardless of how much you disagree with them. If you want to win an argument, you're not going to do so by alienating the people with whom you're debating. If all the left can do is resort to petty name-calling towards people with whom they do not share the same beliefs, then how do you expect to further the progressive cause if you isolate a large percentage of the national demographic? If you can shamelessly "demean and berate" people because of their ideological dispositions, then it isn't the right who're the bad people, it's you.




Donald Trump? Brexit? Marine Le Pen? The left are in-denial.

Is that really unrepresentative of the country as a whole outside London? I live outside of Bradford and i can tell you that most white folk have a very negative perception of that religion and its followers and these are people who are exposed to that hellhole rather than out in the sticks. Anecdotal perhaps but backed by polling. Britain aint Islam friendly outside of the circles of power.

That doesn't really work when people are dieing. Politics is mater of life or death a lot of the time. When you have disabled people dieing due to funding cuts the government behind that is the enemy if you care about these things and it isn't a matter of agreeing to disagree. Some people are just the enemy. I always feel defensive. Being left wing is like trying to make water run up a hill. It's exhausting. Where as from the outside being right wing just seems like a fun log flume ride down those rapids I'm trying push up against.