Dat- “Well there has always been the peer pressure to conform, however, while you certainly well get flamed here for not towing the majority line.. (And I’ve been flamed many a time)... unlike many other places on the internet, I have not had my voice silenced or my account banned etc.
Many of these issues aren’t even ideological issues, they are issues that are in the mainstream and so for some reason we are obligated to take the opposite position.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4211863/posts?page=243#243
HamiltonJay- “So, while I do get flamed whenever I voice an opinion that doesn’t tow the line, my voice isn’t shut down. So, I give FR props for that... however I won’t argue that this place has become far less the open exchange of ideas, and more a shouting match over the decades.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4211863/posts?page=203#203
MY THOUGHTS:
I agree with what both of you are saying.
FR is a wonderful forum for exposure to information and sharing of opinions. Sharing such helps each of us to avoid being ‘spoon-fed’ MSM information to just regurgitate later.
Each of us should not evade our intellectual responsibility to develop our personal view in the pursuit of knowledge. We are enabled to do this at FR by respectfully sharing with each other information: articles, videos, speeches etc.
Each of us has freedom of thought and of expression. I am not here to dictate a point of view. Let us respect that same freedom of thought and of expression to each other that may hold a differing viewpoint.
There is nothing more that can I say, except that your for your post.