It's Time to Parler

By Rich Kozlovich

I belong to an eclectic e-mail group that discusses every social issue under the sun, daily. Some just read the comments, some contribute and comment regularly, some occasionally, and those who comment occasionally can be surprising with the comments.

But it's a closed forum with people who are direct, intelligent, knowledgeable and polite, and other than myself, they're all educated. I consider this to be a unique and special group, and lucky! Not often you can get that kind of interaction in such a diverse group. Of course we often disagree, but at some point we will disagree to the point there's nothing left but personal attacks, as we so often see in comments sections of online articles. and we're absolutely not going down that road, so we just walk away from it.

One of the latest issues that's come to the fore is Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn and their publication policies.

Let's start here:

As Twitter checks Trump, Khamenei account left alone, despite plea from Israel

Comment from a member: Twitter, Google, Facebook, YouTube are all vile when it comes to their policies and actions on this sort of thing. They're blatantly bigoted, and grossly discriminating against conservatives, Jews, and Republicans. Not to mention seriously meddling in the upcoming election.

Breitbart News Appeals Twitter Account Suspension, ‘Review’ Drags Out Beyond 48 Hours

Twitter Suspends PragerU, Prominent Conservatives, and Doctors for Commenting on HCQ

Comment from a member:  This is truly outrageous.  Now twitter, google, YouTube etc., thinks that they are doctors who somehow have the right to say what people can and cannot hear about a treatment in the middle of a pandemic.  Because, of course, we're too stupid to decide for ourselves with our real doctors what we do or do not want to try or do for a possibly deadly condition.

Over the years there's been a lot of discussion over this, but the question really is what can be done about this? I think it’s blatantly obvious LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook are in no way impartial.  They're now part of the left wing media conspiracy, and their goal is to destroy conservatives, Christians, Republicans, Jews, Israel and whites. 

So what?  No matter how outraged I might become over this I still contend it's their right to be stupid.   This is America, we have a right to be stupid, it’s Constitutional!  We have more kinds of stupidity here than any nation on the Earth!   Why?   Because we have a system that permits it, and an economy that allows for that kind of commitment, no matter how stupid.   This is unlike other nations.  Especially those dominated by Muslims.  The only kind of stupid they’re allowed to embrace is Islam.  Any other kind of stupid, or even any kind of intelligent for that matter, gets you killed.  

But my big bone of contention with these people is they’re dishonest, just like the rest of the left wing media, whether it’s TV, magazines, newspapers or Hollywood for that matter.  The difference is no one can tell these news sources what they can or cannot print.  Who they support or who they hate.  Why should we think we can do it with these groups? Admittedly, they're not the press, and so the argument is they have no First Amendment protection.  Really? I'm not so sure that's a slippery slope. 

In decades gone by I really liked the way newspapers worked.  Many, many decades ago.  They were openly partisan.  They would call themselves the name of the city and who they supported.  Such as the New Haven Republican, or the New Haven Democrat, etc.  Those names are made up by the way,  but that was the trend.  You knew where they were from and where they stood.

Now the main stream media is finally coming out into the open and demonstrating their corruption, and so too should these social media sites.  And once they've done that, leave them alone.  I’ve contended what needs to be done is develop competition with these openly left wing lunatics with an openly conservative site, or at the very least an honest open dialogue site.  And now there is one, and it’s called Parler!  But get this.  Conservatives can be an odd lot.   Parler isn't attracting conservatives as it should. Why?

One conservative writer I personally know complained that posting on Parler was like preaching to the choir, and a waste of time.   Does anyone really think posting on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook will change the thinking of leftist ideologues to any real degree, and is a better use of time?

Preaching to the choir is a good thing because it provides information conservatives can use to support  their own views, challenge opposing views, and do it intelligently.  Also, it makes it clear to conservatives they're not alone, and that the social sea they're swimming in is filled with intelligent, reasonable and rational people.  That's an excellent use of time!

By the way, it amazes me how often I can search for something on Google but it won't show up, clearly they're orchestrating what can be found.  All the Breitbart articles I linked suffered that kind of fate.  So I often use Quant as my search engine, and it never fails to deliver.