Total BS.
Maybe the dumbest thing I have read in a long while.
Facts have neither a conservative or liberal bias.
I’ve been unfriended by a lot of liberals. And it kinda makes my wife cringe when our daughter in law posts something pro-homosexual marriage and I fire both barrels.
I take very seriously the axiom that all it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. I NEVER let pro-homosexual marriage, Pro-Islam and other statements go on facebook uninhibited. And because I know more and have at my fingertips far more info than most of these facebook nitwits, I shut them down pretty hard.
It’s especially fun when the liberal “alpha dogs” jump in and try to take me on. They simply don’t have truth and the facts on their side, but are not used to someone who will fight back and knows what he’s talking about. Too many of them are like the upper classman arguing with freshmen. When a real adult steps in against them they go down fast - and often gloriously.
We all should be doing it.
Social media stifles debate by creating bubble chambers. I have had liberal friends and relatives unfriend me because they were not interested in debate, let alone correcting inaccuracies in their memes that I pointed out.
Facts have a definite conservative bias, going by the definitions of “conservative” and “liberal”. Conservatives may not always be right, but liberals are always wrong. (This is because everything is political to liberals.)
The article’s thesis is definitely hogwash (liberals have pestered conservatives since Eve ate the apple), but one could reasonably argue that the Internet encourages impressionable teenagers to engage in stupid liberal behaviors.
It’s really not BS. Facts have absolutely nothing to do with what they’re writing about here.
There’s social pressure to which most people succumb to express currently popular opinions on social matters, especially, now, gay marriage. Daring to contradict a statement about the wonderfulness of gay marriage instantly earns the poster a ‘homophobic’ label. You will see friends and sometimes family “unfriend” you, or argue, however irrationally, with you.