Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like things have been getting kind of unpleasant around here lately, a lot more arguments, a lot more “I’m right, you’re wrong, fuck you, now bend the knee” kind of discussions rather than actually explaining a position or trying to convince someone to change their mind.
I know tensions are high for a lot of people right now, but I really don’t want to see this place turn into yet another dead online leftist forum where the dozen or so remaining members declare themselves the One True Leftists after having chased everyone else away through their toxicity.
Just because you think you’re right about something doesn’t give you the right to be an asshole about it.
As things get worse people will start getting more cranky and hostile with one another. We will start trusting each other less and less. People will draw harder lines in the sand and tolerate less crossings. The community will become more insular. On top of that you have the general background radiation of social media dunk culture which is toxic and easily internalized if you’re having a bad day and not thinking.