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Originally Posted by Original Position
I claimed that most of the posters in P7 were liberals or progressive/socialist. Here is a list of top posters by volume. By my count, only 8 of the top 25 are libertarian or conservative, with the rest falling somewhere in the liberal to socialist range. So I don't agree with you that my claim was false.
Many of the topics discussed were central to progressive and socialist ideas, eg gender and racial equality, the role of immigration and immigrants, the results of the 2016 election, the nature of privilege, etc. If you want a specific example, here's a thread on the gender pay gap.
EDIT: As for whether they were alt-right in ideals, my own view that the alt-right in ideals is fairly mainstream GOP ideology at this point.
But, that's not what happened at all. The threads weren't about progressive or socialist values. That *never* happened. The "gender pay gap" thread was almost exclusively about other issues. Same with the "racial equality" and "immigration" threads. The thread titles were titled in ways to not get it auto locked, but they were almost exclusively made by alt right posters.
The entire cycle was that a deplorable would make some alt right post about Richard Spencer being a great human being or something, then like 3 people laughing at him. That doesn't make it a progressive place just because 3 progressive people objected to Richard Spencer being called an intellectual.
If you think the alt right ideology permeates the current GOP and that the breitbart strain has mainstream support among GOP at large right now, sure. That doesn't automatically mean that those clearly bigoted ideas deserve equal footing and representation solely due to their current authority.
If you go through with this awful, awful idea I'd have one suggestion. Only Well Named gets to make new threads. People can PM him and make suggestions, but otherwise you get what P7 was, which was alt right people making threads about "immigration" which was just pure xenophobia but confuses people like Original Poster into thinking it was some socialist thread.
Last edited by aoFrantic; 12-10-2017 at 03:52 AM.