Tired of being battered on social media

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Roe V. Wade getting overturned led to an experience that still bothers me. On that day back in June I got shredded by a group of people in a discord group, followed by being kicked out because I said that I preferred adoption over abortion in some cases. This is pretty much what I said at the time:

It's best not to expound extreme beliefs online if it leads to blowback like that.

The bible says only a fool says whatever is on his mind. Im not saying you're a fool, just that it's better to keep things to yourself most of the time.

It was ok for all the pro-choice people to state their opinions, but it wasn’t ok for me to state mine?

Idk why that opinion would be extreme. Do you know that there are actually people who think ALL abortions should be banned, even in cases of rape and incest??? And what I stated is just as bad as that?

I understand how you feel because I have similar views about abortion, social media, and all these political extremists online who want to verbally attack anybody who disagrees with their ideologies no matter how civil they try be.

The far left extremists truely think they are more moral and less extreme than the righties. They fail to see the irony in their own ignorant behavior and in the fact that they really arent that different from the far right extremists.

Is it any wonder people think we Americans are headed for another civil war?

I just assume that I'm going to be battered because other than keeping self-funded abortion legal in the early months of pregnancy in non-life threatening instances, I'm not for any of it. I don't believe a person should die; neither the mother or the baby. And that's about the extent of it for me. All health related terminations should be approached on a case by case basis.

In my experience if a person expresses beliefs that are not along the lines of complete and total bloodshed, even up to the point of delivery, they will be attacked. As a consequence, I save those views for my personal wall. Then, I feel like I've had my unfiltered say. If anyone chooses to start something on my FB page, the gloves are off.

Sometimes I get in trouble here on WP for expressing myself in what I feel is a very tame fashion.

If I express my beliefs on a post that is not on my personal wall, my post gets taken down or worse case scenario I get banned for a time.

"They" consider not understanding why a woman wouldn't be willing to provide a safe environment for the baby to grow for 40 weeks and then adopted out as hostile and traumatic. Now, I'm not referring to rape, incest, or even an accidental pregnancy. I believe in allowing safe abortion for the first 8 weeks for any reason. I'm referring to the dafties who are pregnant for months before finally arriving at the conclusion that it needs to be dealt with. And then deciding abortion is the solution for an infant with a fully intact neurological system ( can feel pain ).

If you don't strip down buck neked, don your antlers and light a bonfire, while offering up the blood of an infant and chanting homage to Ba'al, you'll be battered.

This is why I don’t bother with social media.

Lots of “Internet Warriors” out there who are shrinking violets in person.

Some people are liberal until it comes to an opinion they don't like.

Most of the time its them and not you so don't read too much into it. People on the internet act like ferocious narcissists. Of course in real life the unsaid possibility of physical retaliation would see them wind their neck in.

While I don't agree with it, Im under the impression your view is not extreme or a little minority in America. So if they want to change minds they better have more tact. But they don't really, they just want to virtue signal and have an ego boost, rounding on you like wolves.

I only talk about politics online if I'm prepared for a fight, which is not often, so I rarely do.

These people have done you a favour by showing themselves up like that, you know who to steer clear of in future. Some even blocked themselves so you don't have to!

Solution: Don't go on (anti)social-media. We all waste far too much time online, myself included.

Another option: As your friend pointed out, say less, read/listen more.


As for my take on your post.. People who are pro choice aren't necessarily pro abortion - just pro freedom of CHOICE for women to do as they see fit with their bodies & for themselves and their lives. Why should any level of government, or their husband/boyfriend, or any other individual - ie you - tell them what they can and cannot do? That's the issue of debate here and why you got roasted for your opinion. Why should a girl/woman be forced to carry a baby to term that they do not want to bring into this world for whatever their personal reason is? Why should they be forced to have their body physically changed in order to do so and then go through the excruciating pain of childbirth or a c-section because you said their baby should be put up for adoption? Why should a girl/woman have to live knowing they have adopted children out there that were either unwanted or that they were incapable of caring for? And that child existing likely knowing they were given up for adoption and wondering all the why's ?

None of this makes any sense to Me or to them or any pro choice person. Those decisions, and all other ramifications of them, are deeply personal and should be made by the individual girl/woman and her medical doctor(s), not some other person dictating to them what's going to happen to them and their body and the rest of their lives because you say so.

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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.

This isn’t meant to be a debate about abortion.