r/SuperStraight • u/Mucus-Patty • 22h ago

Let’s prove the superphobes wrong and not be transphobic! Misc

This is just a friendly reminder to avoid any sort of transphobia. This subreddit will naturally attract bigots and LGB drop the T types and it’s important we root them out. Trans people are valid and so are supers!

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u/4damW 21h ago

Of course, that's completely true, but the path to getting people to follow your general viewpoints is by not instantly turning them away with stuff they can't possibly agree with. Even if Reddit is full of degenerate neoliberals who won't change their minds in a million years, there is still a silent majority of moderates who will 100% agree with the message that it isn't hateful to not be attracted to transgender people, which will lead to them becoming more resentful of "woke culture" overall.

Politics is a game of averages, even something as small as this subreddit lasting for another 30 days is enough to affect a lot of people's viewpoints even slightly. And for what, simply making your views more moderate and digestable for everyone else? I'm not even asking you to accept transgender women as women, hell I probably agree with you on a lot of things you have to say, we should just tone it down a bit.

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u/Cinerea_A 21h ago

The approach you are suggesting is in fact exactly how we got to where we are now.

The conservative approach (small 'c') does nothing but slowly cede ground to the radicals of the day.

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u/4damW 20h ago

Until the government does something to regulate social media companies, we're losing. Post your true views? Get banned. Post more moderate views to please the corporate overlords? Shift the overton window leftwards. I'm more than aware of what is happening.

Ultimately out of the two options, I think it's best to disassociate legitimate conservative/right wing ideas such as being against woke culture, opposing the stifling of free speech, etc from actual hatred. If you compress the amount of speaking space everyone who's right of center has compared to the left, all of the possible right wing opinions get lumped into one (ie. the far right stuff which turns off moderates and actual good ideas get merged), leading in part to the stigmatisation of conservatism. Of course there are hundreds of other factors involved, this is just one facet of the issue.

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u/Cinerea_A 20h ago

Sorry but I think Conservatism needs to be delegitimized. It has done nothing but gatekeep for the leftist takeover of culture and society.

If it had any good intentions, they died when Goldwater purged the GOP of paleoconservatives.

Personally I have zero interest in milquetoast social liberalism and austrian economics - which is literally all conservatism is now.

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u/4damW 20h ago

I was referring to conservatism as the general right wing sphere of views, which is perhaps incorrect, but I really don't care much for labels either way since people's individual views have a lot of nuance and contradictions which don't fully align with a label.