Over and over again I have been bullied and harassed on social media by individuals who inhabit the political left. All I have to do to trigger an onslaught of mean-spirited and abusive comments is to post something on Facebook that goes against official progressive orthodoxy.
Whenever I encounter posts from my progressive friends that I do not agree with, or that I know are incorrect, or that I know are pure bovine excrement, I simply scroll past like an adult. My liberal friends rarely return the favor. There have been times when I’ve had to do battle with 4 or 5 angry leftists at the same time. Each time this happened I felt very much I was ambushed by a pack of rabid dogs.
None of my Conservative or Libertarian friends engage in the same type of bullying and harassing behavior that progressives engage in regularly. Just about all of my right leaning friends have been tormented by hoards of angry liberals. Just about all of my progressive friends have bullied and harassed me. That is the primary difference between the right and the left when it comes to social media.
It took me quite a while to figure out why liberals constantly engage in this holy war against posts that they do not agree with. Their goal is to bully and harass individuals who do not share their beliefs into silence. We are heretics to them. Freedom of speech is not a two-way street to leftists. They label posts that go against progressive groupthink as misinformation, or hate speech, or both. Then they declare all-out war on those individuals that dare think for themselves.
The only way I found to fight against this bullying and harassment is to unfriend those that attempt to bully me into silence. I tried to engage in rational debate and a respectful sharing of views and opinions. That was not well received at all. They responded with insults and tantrums. The bullying only escalated.
I firmly believe that every individual has a right to believe whatever they wish to believe, and to give voice to those beliefs however they wish. I firmly believe that no individual has the right to force their beliefs on any other individual. Sadly, those on the political left do not share these beliefs.
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