Coming out as conservative - Is conservative the new gay?

[ForgedBlades]

This has been debated a lot since like 2015, but I'm interested to hear what you guys think. Is it harder to come out as conservative in today's cultural climate than it is to come out as gay? Or even non-binary/trans/etc.?

When I say "harder", I don't necessarily mean "coming out to your family or close friends". I would have a much harder time telling my grandparents that I'm chopping my dick off than I did when I told them that I voted for Trump. I'm more talking about "coming out" in the workplace, to colleagues and acquaintances, and publicly (like putting a bumper sticker on your car).

I understand that this questions depends a lot on who you associate with, where you work, etc. Espousing conservative talking points is going to be a lot easier at a mechanic's shop than it is at a Starbucks.

I think it's become 10 times worse since COVID. It shouldn't even be a political issue, but of course we all know that it is. I was talking to my mom the other night. Everyone on her side of the family is firmly entrenched on the left (except my uncle who I'm fairly certain is even more deeply closeted than I am). When my mom told her I wasn't vaccinated, she unironically told my mom not to tell anyone else in the family because I would likely be disowned. She was 100% serious. I asked if she used that exact word, "disowned". Apparently she did. It got me thinking about this question.

I've been working in academia the past couple years. I know that the issue is magnified tenfold in that environment, but having to fake it is honestly becoming grating. I've had to lie to colleagues and say that I'm fully vaccinated because I'm terrified of being shunned if I say otherwise. I'm wearing a fucking mask even though it's not required because I'm scared I'll be singled out if I don't. I smile and nod and play along when people talk about how bad the GOP is and how great everyone on the left is. Don't get me started on the trans issue. I used to laugh at the gay trope that they are "living a lie". I think I'm actually starting to get it now. It's exhausting pretending to be someone you're not.

Am I just being overdramatic about all of this? Am I being a snowflake? The type of person I hate? What say you?

 

[PFM]

When my mom told her I wasn't vaccinated, she unironically told my mom not to tell anyone else in the family because I would likely be disowned. She was 100% serious.

Liberals are fucking sick in the head

 

[Underperforming]

Conforming yourself to a political ideology is gay. Therefore coming out as conservative is gay.

 

[MagmaStalker]

In the CURRENT climate, it makes more sense to be gay/trans/non-binary then conservative. Free ass pats all around! I will say that Candace Owens has made a pretty lucrative run of coming out as the only black conservative female or whatever, at least that is what she plays on TV. I guess there is a valid case for both.

 

[Analog Devolved]

GET BASED GET GRACED

 

[Kali Schematic]

say that I'm fully vaccinated because I'm terrified

I'm wearing a fucking mask even though it's not required because I'm scared

I smile and nod and play along

A coward dies a thousand times before he departs, the valiant taste of death but once.

 

[NigKid]

Pour one out for our gay conservative brothers

 

[PandaChai]

As someone who has (unfortunately) done both, I can say it was most definitely harder to come out as just generally right wing than it was to being gay.

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

I think what you have to do is look elsewhere for peers who share you sentiments. One question I'd ask is are you really a conservative though? The left has gone so far off the deep end the distinction doesn't seem to matter anymore.

I don't recommend misrepresenting your opinions, instead I'd recommend just not volunteering them, but if pressed say what you actually think because:

A coward dies a thousand times before he departs, the valiant taste of death but once.

 

[Red Hood]

Having relatively conservative leanings in a liberal-dominated field, I sometimes feel like there's always a sword of Damocles hanging over my head. I don't discuss my politics but I tend to keep my co-workers at arms' length just to be safe.

 

[byuu]

What has not getting a vaccine have to do with conservatism?

 

[ForgedBlades]

What has not getting a vaccine have to do with conservatism?

Nothing and everything.

 

[SiccDicc]

 

[Dona Morte]

"I've been working in academia"
Don't.
They will run you out of there if you are in any job.

 

[The Last Stand]

Half of my opinions and perspective on the current state of political and social affairs in America would be considered "conservative." Political alignments have been misused ad nauseam, there's no point in worrying about it.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

Being a conservative in 2021 will mean nothing in the years to come because the definition is changing constantly. Liberalism is just a warped ideology that has no meaning, where as conservatism does not have much to conserve on since the ideas and values that were thrown upon the U.S. have been burned down and destroyed in replace of other warped ideologies that don’t have any real meaning.

It’s the reason why people like Hasan Piker exist on Twitch.

 

[Haim Arlosoroff]

The cult of the 50's was being anti-communist in your close-knit community


The cult of the 60's was being a pacifist violently at police and returning solders



The cult of the 70's was being degenerate and all-accepting in a changing age



The cult of the 80's was being anti-capitalism in your lifestyle, art, and architecture



The cult of the 90's was being a nigger even if you were white


The cult of the 00's was being a faggot freak even in a marriage with kids


The cult of the 10's was being mindless drone for ZOG


The cult of the 20's seems to either be keeping your soul or losing it forever

We're definitely on the outside looking in at culture and we're getting boo'd at. I'm very happy considering what American Culture cheers for. Blacks waiting on tables for rich fellow-white inbred bureaucrats who exist to keep white civilization on its last legs for the 70 IQ mystery meat white-replacements. Good thing America won WWII and the cold war, really would have hurt to have lost those. Probably never would have recovered, and then how would we let the Powers that Be go full technocrat and destroy us?

 

[Mischief Committee]

I genuinely don't understand how people are still thinking/acting like this. Sure conservatives are more marginalized because we live in a flaccid society of impotent males, but this kind of question is just embarrassing and shows a total lack of awareness of the last 6 years. We are living in a time where the nominal left and right are both hyper sensitive, with the left edging out weak conservatives who want to protect their financial interests by bending over. Both sides want to take everything from you while pandering to the paths of least resistance.
With the obvious being stated, let me say this. Move past this fear of being ostracized. At the risk of sounding like a larper, read or listen to fight club and then read Ted Kaczynski. That will be your orientation into the current state of affairs. We are so past the point of any political solution that you need to move past arguments and find truths that satisfy you, and then see them through with absolute conviction. Don't argue. Don't join groups. Work out. Only talk to people that will listen. Get hobbies that keep you and your loved ones alive and prosperous.
If you think things are bad, they are probably much worse than you realize. Prepare.

 

[seri0us]

You should stop pretending to be something you're not

 

[DiscoRodeo]

Coming out as anything is gay. Just live your life the way you want. You don't have to announce to the world everything you are doing are believe in.

Believe in conservative values if you want, act on them, and chill. Why do you have to come out to people about it? If you feel the need to do so, you seriously are the new gay.