RE: 2024 US Presidential Election
Today at 2:06 am
(This post was last modified: Today at 2:19 am by TheWhiteMarten.)
Right, well it is clear coming here was a mistake.
I made this account several months ago while struggling with my conversion to Christianity; I had been an atheist for 17 years and had been active on another similar named forum for years - as that one was mostly dead, I decided I would come here to see what the average discussion on religion looked like.
I found very little of value then and decided to move on, but when Trump won and many of my old friends (Communist Party of America, anti-theists, college friends) as well as massive atheist social media accounts I still followed decided to have emotional meltdowns I decided... "Heck, I use to have a lot of respect for atheists as intellectuals and worldly people, that seems like a good place to see if this is common across the board."
I had bad experiences on Reddit and Twitter, but lets be honest - those are Reddit and Twitter, so I decided to check both the old forum and here.
What I was not expecting was to be greeted with logical fallacies such as strawmen arguments and shifting goalposts; I was not expecting a moderator to - with the first words out of their mouth - bring up my ethnicity; I was not expecting arguments based on using feels and emotions to try and avoid serious problems that exist within the government.
I came to yall because I *respected* yall as intellectuals who prioritized rationality and reason - at least what us New Atheists use to pretend to champion - , but the reality is that was a *very* naive and foolish mistake to make, and if it wasn't for remarks about my race I would have just gladly gone out with the wind, never to be seen again - I get yall don't agree politically and that's fine, even if I find it insane to base your policy on the lies sold to you by the very people profiting off your fear.
I was looking forward to discussions on a variety of topics, but it's clear any future discussion is going to be constantly tainted with the fear of not offending a racist moderator and the fear of being dogpiled by fallacies so that the idea that any meaningful conversation can be had is utterly void.
I made this account several months ago while struggling with my conversion to Christianity; I had been an atheist for 17 years and had been active on another similar named forum for years - as that one was mostly dead, I decided I would come here to see what the average discussion on religion looked like.
I found very little of value then and decided to move on, but when Trump won and many of my old friends (Communist Party of America, anti-theists, college friends) as well as massive atheist social media accounts I still followed decided to have emotional meltdowns I decided... "Heck, I use to have a lot of respect for atheists as intellectuals and worldly people, that seems like a good place to see if this is common across the board."
I had bad experiences on Reddit and Twitter, but lets be honest - those are Reddit and Twitter, so I decided to check both the old forum and here.
What I was not expecting was to be greeted with logical fallacies such as strawmen arguments and shifting goalposts; I was not expecting a moderator to - with the first words out of their mouth - bring up my ethnicity; I was not expecting arguments based on using feels and emotions to try and avoid serious problems that exist within the government.
I came to yall because I *respected* yall as intellectuals who prioritized rationality and reason - at least what us New Atheists use to pretend to champion - , but the reality is that was a *very* naive and foolish mistake to make, and if it wasn't for remarks about my race I would have just gladly gone out with the wind, never to be seen again - I get yall don't agree politically and that's fine, even if I find it insane to base your policy on the lies sold to you by the very people profiting off your fear.
I was looking forward to discussions on a variety of topics, but it's clear any future discussion is going to be constantly tainted with the fear of not offending a racist moderator and the fear of being dogpiled by fallacies so that the idea that any meaningful conversation can be had is utterly void.
