Got a Ban on NeoGaf...

[bouzane]

NewGuy said:

bouzane said:

NewGuy said:

celador said:
You have to have a specific world view on gaf when it comes to anything not completely game related, otherwise you won't last long at all.

 

You have to be a politically correct left wing liberal neo-progressive. Other views are not respected and people get jumped on pretty hastily. It's a good place for video game news, but a horrible place that does not like or accept other's ideas. 

Mods get free reign to be douches and most of them take full advantage of said doucheness.

 

Fixed that for you. We need to stop associating neo-progressivism with liberalism because they are very different ideologies that are fundamentally opposed in many ways. I myself am extremely liberal (because I enjoy living in a free society) and my views are very unpopular with authoritarians like the GAF mods and admins.

 

For example?

 

Neo-progressives often oppose personal liberty, equality of opportunity (in favor of quotas), laissez-faire capitalism (progressivism originated as a right wing movement specifically to oppose the perceived excesses of the free market), freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom of speech and freedom of thought (among others). I don't understand how so many people conflate these radically different (often directly opposing) ideologies. They mix like oil and water and the left wing's pathetic attempts and merging them is simultaneously amusing and terrifying.

To put it as simply as possible, liberalism is about individualism and freedom. If you oppose the basic tenants of liberalism by say, advocating for censorship and quotas, you are not liberal. Neo-progressives are not liberal, the left wing is not liberal (for the most part) and many people who call themselves liberal certainly are not.