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What are the taboo subjects? (leminal.space)

submitted 2 days ago by infinite_ass@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The subjects that you can't even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

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[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I guess so, it's just that if I say I support the right to own a gun, I get downvoted in most communities

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, in heavily left-wing spaces guns give people the wigglies. Even if it's not rights, the general fact we live in a world with them is something people try to memory hole.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You and I define "heavily left-wing" quite differently then. The far-left has always supported gun rights and armed struggle. It's the political centre and parts of the right that are blanket anti-gun.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 17 hours ago

We probably do. Far-left spaces are their own thing, and are almost always labeled as such since it's a tiny, insular group.

[–] KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social 1 points 15 hours ago

Happened to me once. Nearly killed my desire to discuss firearms here on Lemmy. Not sure if this is true, but I feel that most people on Lemmy are likely anti-gun. Maybe the more liberal mindset of many people in the wider open source community has some part in it. Either way, I just want to dispel all the false claims about guns and their ownership. And some don't want to hear it.