(June 14, 2017 at 1:36 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(June 14, 2017 at 1:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: I feel like you must not frequent the forum much or only see a part of it. We have a lot of conservative long-time members. Even the guy who formed the forum has some conservative views, though he's socially liberal to some degree. There is a ton of political disagreement here. It's been going on for years. I get into political debates on here quite regularly. They certainly aren't threads filled with people all agreeing and patting each other on the back.
As for it being one person, you were talking about headlines. Those headlines come from a small group of people, possibly even just one.
I lurk here almost every day. What you are saying is just not true. If you look at the political discourse in these forums and see reasoned and rational discussion, then I really have no reply. I could go over the discussion going on in the non- Min created threads on the front page point by point if you want and tell you how I interpret it.
I can also tell you that I am a centrist and personally get attacked on here politically for being right wing (even though that's not even true) viciously enough that it makes me lurk more than participate. I also have privately talked multiple people who either quit talking politics here or quit the forums altogether because of it. I'm not even a conservative, but to be one here you would need a very thick skin.
Sorry Shell, I'm with Capt on this one. There's always been a leftward slant built into AF but only because atheists are in general are left-leaning (perhaps in reaction to conservative upbringing), not all obviously, I know lots of Ayn Rand type atheists that claim to be libertarians but push-comes-to-shove are conservatives. However, ever since Trump won the election left-wing political comments have multiplied across all the threads. As a result I'm really starting to lose interest in AF because the number of Philosophy and Theology threads (where I like to play) has gone down to a trickle. Politics is sucking all the air out of AF and it's just not as vibrant as it used to be.
