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Originally Posted by SereneTuna
There's an awful lot of people (not all typically crazies or grifters) who hold the opinion that the Trump twitter ban is the start of some harmful corporate purge. The end game of cancel culture with dangerous ramifications. My natural reaction is that this is nonsense given the events of the last few days, but I'm beginning to question everything. Can anybody weigh in?
Right now companies are just protecting their brand, no mainstream company wants be the ones who allowed terrorists to openly plot and recruit. And it is almost guaranteed that this will happen and we know how they do it from past cases (Boogaloo attacks, Gretchen kidnapping / assassination plot etc). Parler has almost no moderation, and is therefore especially weak to such extremism.
More moderate Conservatives should be more worried about how easily their movement has been infected with right-wing extremism. The MAGA-crowd at the Capitol had no problem with standing together with white supremacists openly wearing Nazi propaganda.
The attempt to portray it as an attack on conservatism is just silly. But of course, a lot of mainstream politicans and pundits have played with fire and extremism for a long time, and portraying themselves as “mere conservatives” is a rhetoric ploy to garner political support.
If I was a conservative right now, I would look to those conservative voices which have openly stood against this extremism. They might not have had the farthest reach, but they are out there. Considering they have also stood against the tide of an extremely popular ideological leader (Trump) and his harassing mob, that shows backbone.