I tend to be conservative, and I work in tech.
It feels to me like a repressive atmosphere. Conservatives are muzzled or eliminated.
It's not a healthy environment for anyone.
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Anecdotally I've never seen any evidence of people being 'eliminated' for their political beliefs, but the feeling of being muzzled seems to be common among the quieter conservatives I know in tech.
Calling yourself a conservative is meaningless.
The US has shifted away from being a republic to being more of an oligarchy over the last 30 years. So if you are a supporter of oligarchs stand up and be counted.
If you are a fiscal conservative you should be pissed that the republicans put the country farther in debt than the democrats do.
If you are a social conservative, what the fuck is wrong with you? If you want to live like the Amish, go for it. But you dont see the Amish trying to impose their way of life on others do you?
So yes, people who's ideas feel repressive or too far out there either learn to monitor their own extreme ideas or they are shunned. That's how a civil society works.
While you may have valid points, your tone is aggressive, emotional, and unproductive.
> people who's ideas feel repressive or too far out there either learn to monitor their own extreme ideas or they are shunned. That's how a civil society works.
This can be taken too far, however. Complete suppression of nonpopular views can maintain an unproductive status quo, and may lead to authoritarianism.
But indeed is that not what you just did with me? Tried to moderate it so that it feels less aggressive and more comfortable.
I didn't suppress your main idea, I just critiqued the way in which you conveyed it. Highly emotional posts on this site aren't good because of the voting system; comments become voted on not because of their merit or contribution to the conversation, but because the reader agrees or disagrees with them, which is fine for sites like Reddit, but we try to maintain a more thoughtful culture on this site. If we want to advance the conversation, the best way to do that is to focus on the logic that determined your opinion instead of the emotion.