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‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters

Apparently you have to stifle debate in order to protect freedom.

MAY 12, 2016 By Robert Tracinski

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.


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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2016, 07:14:37 pm »
I wonder if I should post this over there. :whistle:
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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2016, 07:17:37 pm »
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But those of us on the right should take a deep breath and wonder whether adopting a policy of political uniformity—in this case, not loyalty to an ideology or even a party, but loyalty to a single man—is importing the same illiberal habits of thought that we denounce when we encounter them on the left. And the same hypocritical preening about how independent and free-thinking we still are.

Word.....very Obamaish imho
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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2016, 07:20:33 pm »
This post says it all:

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To: Jim Robinson

Count me in, Boss.

7 posted on 5/11/2016, 1:16:03 PM by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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Boss?

But this one says more than enough:

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To: Jim Robinson

I just sent in an additional contribution to the FReepathon in honor of Jim's wise and patriotic decisions.
Leni

25 posted on 5/11/2016, 1:31:13 PM by MinuteGal ( GO, TRUMP, GO !!!)
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Oh.

It is now wise and patriotic to enforce a censorious safe space on a public Website. (Spare me that
"his house, his rules" crap, especially in light of the hypocrisies enunciated by the author of the
article the OP posted. If it's his house and his rules, why the hell doesn't he make it a pay site?)


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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2016, 07:24:11 pm »
Another sissy Mom’s boy talks tough behind his computer screen and then squeals in hysterics when his poison pen gets responded to with the same level of vitriol.

Note to the screaming cry babies in the Petulance Party. If your are going to write these sort of childish polemics, expect people to shoot back

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« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2016, 07:26:19 pm »
I wonder if I should post this over there. :whistle:

Yep and laughing systemically about the hypcocrise and pompous arrogance of the author. Utterly childish for this author to pen these sorts of bile laced tirades and then crybully when he is responded to in kind.

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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2016, 07:27:53 pm »
Yep and laughing systemically about the hypcocrise and pompous arrogance of the author. Utterly childish for this author to pen these sorts of bile laced tirades and then crybully when he is responded to in kind.

Are you referring to the author of the article?
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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2016, 07:32:46 pm »
Wondered where C. Edmund Wright had got to. He's done a couple comments on the article.
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« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2016, 07:33:52 pm »
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3430043/posts

Well I guess great minds think alike LOL!

I couldn't have posted it anyway as it turns out...they've reapplied the "soft Zot" to my account again.
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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2016, 07:36:09 pm »
Trump is for America First.
"Crooked Hillary Clinton is the Secretary of the Status Quo – and wherever Hillary Clinton goes, corruption and scandal follow." D. Trump 7/11/16

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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2016, 07:37:37 pm »
Provide a link here and let everyone know most freepers have moved here.

I wonder if I should post this over there. :whistle:
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« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2016, 07:39:14 pm »


Hey I think I found a pic of Mechanios over at ToS

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« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2016, 07:42:31 pm »
Provide a link here and let everyone know most freepers have moved here.

That's a good idea too.  However my soft Zot has been re-instated and my post would never make it past these guys:

The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years. The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil.

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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2016, 07:42:50 pm »
Hey I think I found a pic of Mechanios over at ToS


Trump is for America First.
"Crooked Hillary Clinton is the Secretary of the Status Quo – and wherever Hillary Clinton goes, corruption and scandal follow." D. Trump 7/11/16

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« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2016, 07:48:06 pm »
Looks like SuzyQ got mention over there for freedrepublic.com

Word.....very Obamaish imho
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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #17 on: May 12, 2016, 07:49:19 pm »
There are just some people who are far more comfortable being surrounded by folks that agree with them than with those who might not. The Internet just makes it a lot easier to do that now. For some an echo chamber sounds pretty sweet....

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« Reply #18 on: May 12, 2016, 07:50:33 pm »


^^^ Picture from the latest Trump rally.
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« Reply #19 on: May 12, 2016, 07:53:04 pm »
The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years. The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil.

Here lies in honored glory an American soldier, known but to God

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« Reply #20 on: May 12, 2016, 07:54:03 pm »
I wonder if I should post this over there. :whistle:
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Re: ‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters
« Reply #21 on: May 12, 2016, 08:19:17 pm »
Another sissy Mom’s boy talks tough behind his computer screen and then squeals in hysterics when his poison pen gets responded to with the same level of vitriol.

Oh.

Objecting to public hypocrisy and daring to write rather reasonably about it (yes, I read the full original
article, not just the excerpt offered here) is the deed of a sissy Mom's boy squealing hysterically.

From the original article:

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Incidentally, this comes a day after Robinson launched a fund-raising drive in which he
declared that “We are beholden to no political party,” and that Freepers, as they call themselves,
are “fiercely independent and enjoy our freedom to speak plainly.” Unless you’re skeptical about the
 Coiffed Avenger.

This is not the first time Robinson and Free Republic have done this. He similarly required Freepers
to fall in line behind George W. Bush in 2000—oh, the irony—and booted out Rudy Giuliani supporters
in 2007.

This is still a free society, at least for a little while longer. If Facebook has a right to turn itself into a
clone of
Huffington Post, then Free Republic has a right to turn itself into a volunteer propaganda
organ for the Trump campaign.

But those of us on the right should take a deep breath and wonder whether adopting a policy
of political uniformity—in this case, not loyalty to an ideology or even a party, but loyalty to a single
man—is importing the same illiberal habits of thought that we denounce when we encounter them
on the left. And the same hypocritical preening about how independent and free-thinking we still
are.


(Emphasis added.---EA.)

One wonders which breed of sissy Mom's boy would be someone declaring no dissent shall be tolerated
on a site purporting to be one of discussion and which cannot be called "his house," reasonably, when
it is a very public site open to one and all to join, rather than being a site one pays to join thus agreeing
to whatever perverse guidelines of admissible or inadmissible comment presented by its owner.
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« Reply #22 on: May 12, 2016, 08:28:16 pm »
This same article was posted at FR:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3430043/posts

Here is Jim Robinson's response (Post #25):
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FR has never been a “free speech” forum. You can find those on liberal campuses. We are and always have been heavily biased toward God, family, country and we are looking for like-minded patriots. Liberals and disrutive naysayers get the zot.

NeverTrump=OkWithHillary, a godless America-hating treasonous communist bitch!

To hell with that nonsense.

FR was founded over 20 years ago specifically at that time to fight against the Clinton crime family. 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?

The hell you say.

Here's my question to Jim Rob... If FR is about -- "We are and always have been heavily biased toward God, family, country and we are looking for like-minded patriots", explain to us how a man who boasts about his adultery with other women is about family. Explain what kind of God a man who says he  never sought forgiveness for his sins worships. Explain how a man who contributed over $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation and money to other Democrats is about the country and the constitution....


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« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2016, 08:32:26 pm »
This same article was posted at FR:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3430043/posts

Here is Jim Robinson's response (Post #25):
Here's my question to Jim Rob... If FR is about -- "We are and always have been heavily biased toward God, family, country and we are looking for like-minded patriots", explain to us how a man who boasts about his adultery with other women is about family. Explain what kind of God a man who says he  never sought forgiveness for his sins worships. Explain how a man who contributed over $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation and money to other Democrats is about the country and the constitution....

I think you could also pose that same question to the folks here who are lip synching exactly what JimRob said in what you quoted.
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« Reply #24 on: May 12, 2016, 08:35:24 pm »
Word.....very Obamaish imho

I agree, but it is his site. It's not the public square.

I much prefer the give and take of a discussion among parties that disagree. It's more intellectually stimulating.
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