Moderation isn't "about" political ideology. But rules of decent conduct will always exclude or discriminate against political ideologies. I've been to places like The Donald and Storm Front. While the rules of this cite might allow you to dog whistle and hint at political leanings, you cannot fully express your political beliefs here if you are someone like a full on White supremacist. You have to mask it.
While there is a correlation between breaking rules of civil discourse and extremist views, there is a specific ideological element too it. You can be completely civil and a racist...and end up banned here due entirely to political beliefs. I again bring up Alizia Tyler.
She was completely civil. Wrote in long, boring academic language. Never insulted anyone. Never used any slurs. Never called for violence. She carefully and cordially would argue with you as she brought up books on race and IQ, went through ethno-nationalist talking points, questioned whether the "Negriod races" were genetically capable of developing civilizations. She survived for a while in the basement and eventually got banned for good.
Thanks for replying in a dignified, rational, and reasonable manner.
My thoughts are that we're too easily attributing actions & attitudes to 'political ideology', whereas I see some of this as basic human respect.
In my opinion, specifically 'racism' and racist behaviour is not a political ideology per se. It is a basic human affront. It may be part of one's political ideology, but that is not it's intrinsic nature. It's intrinsic nature is beyond politics. This also goes for other basic things like violence, stealing, etc.
So we have a distinct disagreement as to what's 'political'. I do get what you're saying, and the point you're making, but I don't fully ascribe to it.
It's not just about good conduct preventing people from just spamming the N-word. You could only start so many thread on race and IQ here, regardless of how good your conduct was, before you'd either get the basement or the hammer.
You're bringing up excellent examples, that do indeed promote reflection, and I can see how this last example runs closer to the line of demarcation between 'political idealogy' and 'basic rules of human conduct'.
But again, I don't see the bolded example being an intrinsic example of political ideology.
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I'd also like to differentiate between 'ideology' and 'political ideology'. Not all ideologies are 'political'. Racism may be expressed as an ideology, or even be part of a political ideology. But it's intrinsic nature is an affront to basic humane dignity. That it may also be part of an ideology, or even part of a political ideology, does not affect its intrinsic nature. It is the expression of 'racism' itself that is being moderated, not the ideological or political component of its expression.
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