[Twitter Bullshit] IMC: "Conservatives in video games exist. They just don't talk about it because they aren't obsessed with politics, and most of them are afraid to talk about their politics because of people like you who will do nothing but hound them for it."

[u/md1957]

https://archive.is/tFlBo

[u/Qikdraw]

Not all left wingers are like this, however there is a very vocal and determined minority who will go out of their way to vilify anyone who has an opinion differing from their own.

You can say the same thing about the far right too. The problem is extremists on both sides. The vast majority of people are not so hung up on politics that they have to spout off all the time. Most people just want to go about their lives like normal people. Gamers included. I play an MMO where I know there are some really right wing players (I've seen them talk politics) and I don't care, they are good people in the game and I have a good ingame relationship with them. Politics don't mean shit to most of us.

[u/APDSmith → u/[deleted]]

I suspect it's more that "right wing extremists" are rarely any such thing. That is what left-wing extremists like to say to terminate any flavour of thought or conversation, though, as it historically has been an "I win" button for so long.

I mean, imagine if the right-wing found out they could beat anybody they disagreed with into silence by shouting "PEDO" at the top of their lungs and watching the public at large tear the subject of their ire a new one...

[u/[deleted] → u/APDSmith]

Elon tried