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by Jez » Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:37 pm
Snowy messaged me on steam about this. Lotta water under the bridge and I've had a few German lagers earlier.
The reason I left after 10ish years of posting on PW and TGA was the way the views I hold were being spoken about. Mantis, you mention here about my participation in the "elephant in the room" thread being my own choice, you are quite right there, I could have "not read" it, but the attitudes towards people with my views were littered through many other threads here.
When I expressed a certain reticence about political discussion I think I was trying to appeal to sense and pull the forum back to the friendly place it was. It had turned from friendly to post in, to an echo chamber of derision and disgust. It's hard to expect people to "not read" much less want to put across an alternative point of view. I read so much about the tolerant left and I'm told my frankly conservative point of view is not. Despite media portrayal of people with conservative views, I am not a bigot, nor a racist, nor a homophobe or whatever. I can confidently say that considering my continuing march into old age I had friends from all manner of minorities long before it was "socially fashionable". We were just decent to folk we met and treated others how we wanted to be treated ourselves.
Anyway to say the word "alienated" here would round it off. I get it and the place has that "student union bar" sort of feel to it that maybe I got too old for (in the head at least, 24 years of military service not withstanding), it suits the views of others here nicely though and I accept that much, the debate around the time so highly polarised. Sadly I dont think the world, let alone the forum has changed much on from then. So, not recognising myself here at the time I chose to not engage here anymore. No hard feelings but I'll leave you guys to it on a sad day where another MP is killed.
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