‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters [Jim's response at post 25]

The Federalist ^ | 05/12/2016 | Robert Tracinski

[nhwingut]

On the right, we’ve grown to pride ourselves on our greater openness to debate and ideas, on having no need to toe a Politically Correct line or crawl into a “safe space” like pampered college kids who just can’t handle hearing from anyone who disagrees with them.

For myself, I am so personally dedicated to this ideal that I even perform the great personal sacrifice of reading the comments field beneath my articles.

Yet somehow I wasn’t surprised to see Donald Trump supporters, those swaggering tough guys, turn one of their favorite Internet forums into a safe space where they no longer need to encounter criticism or opposition. Earlier today, Free Republic proprietor Jim Robinson announced that the discussion board would no longer tolerate opposition to Trump’s candidacy.

[mkjessup]

Are you guys talking about C. Edmund Wright?

It would seem so.

He hasn't had too many kind words to say about FR over at his new website home (the Federalist apparently).

I was actually in contact with C. Edmund offline, had some good conversations with him, as Yoda might have said regarding C. Edmund's regrettable choices, "most unfortunate".

[Freedom56v2]

And you think I’m going to give up that fight and allow another Clinton to waltz into the WH to appease a bunch of sore losers?

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Spot on!

[stephenjohnbanker]

A +

B T T T

[Tench_Coxe]

I'm technically class of '98 but got caught up in that server/'re-registering issue in early '99.
Funny comment, yours, but of dubious veracity.

[mkjessup]

http://www.freerepublic.com/~nathanfedford/

Didn’t know about this one but someone alerted me.

Not to be confused with "nathanbedford", who appears to still be a FReeper in good standing.

I don't always agree with him, but I like the guy.

[onyx]

trisham

Since Feb 21, 2002


SPOILED nOOb LADY
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[dragnet2]

Well he was, yep. But I would guess anyone could do that at anytime.

I find it much more interesting to see who was supporting whom, and when. Trump became my candidate the day of his announcement speech, 6/16/2015. And that thread/comments was a bit like a harbinger, or a forecast of events that followed.

[mkjessup]

Thank you FRiend! :)

[sport]

You are doing a pretty good job of getting them, but you have a little more work to do. In reality, there is no such thing as “free speech”. One cannot slander another individual without consequences. One cannot shout “Fire!” in a crowed theater without consequences One cannot curse one’s superior officer to their face in the military without consequences. One cannot perjure themselves in a court proceeding unless you are a Clinton.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Free Republic is PRIVATE PROPERTY

It is genuinely heartbreaking to me -- for realsies, no foolin' -- that the very concept of private property rights, so fundamental to core conservatism, actually needs to be painstakingly EXPLAINED to these self-righteous yip-yops.

[JBW1949]

Well, congratulations to you also...I waited until 67 myself...

[Seruzawa]

We need to know what the opposition is thinking or planning. So I am more than happy to see anti-Trump articles. How else does one get to know the enemy?

[Nita Nupress]

donaldtrump
Since Oct 28, 2008

[Resettozero]

It is genuinely heartbreaking to me -- for realsies, no foolin' -- that the very concept of private property rights, so fundamental to core conservatism, actually needs to be painstakingly EXPLAINED to these self-righteous yip-yops.

Yeah, but that Quantum Blaster of yours is still firing dangerously. Turn it off before an innocent FReeper is hurt.

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, he was another Catholic-hater who was allowed to thrive on FR. Did he leave over Trump? LOL, what an ass.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

We’re FReepers. None of us qualify as “innocent” any longer. ;)

[dragnet2]

I wondered what happened to Eddy!

What a piece of work...

[JBW1949]

You are thinking of C Edmond Wright, I believe...

He wrote “WTF, How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again”...

[Resettozero]

So true.

[DaxtonBrown]

“In 1989 Bob Lazar claimed that flying saucers used an unknown atomic element (element 115) as fuel.”

My favorite crackpot theory from late night was that Hawthorne Nevada is actually a secret submarine base :)

I know George Knapp. Now there’s a crackpot.