> left-leaning people often can't stand to be in the presence of right wing arguments. They fear "contamination" of some sort, so they either find ways to abuse the rules to kick the right wing people out or they leave.
Ehhhh... most times I've seen left-wing people avoid right-wing arguments it's been due to factors like racism -- or, often, 'not even wrong'-ness. This is in my experience the largest factor.
As for Europe and free speech, while you can't really speak about Europe as a whole even as much as you can the US, it seems to follow a policy that's closer to the forum this article is about. Germany has laws on hate speech and anti-Semitism, for example. That's not 'free speech' but it is moderation on a national scale.
Ehhhh... most times I've seen left-wing people avoid right-wing arguments it's been due to factors like racism -- or, often, 'not even wrong'-ness. This is in my experience the largest factor.
Paul Krugman has a great NYT article on this (and note the NYT is, by global standards, not left-wing): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/opinion/facts-have-a-well...
As for Europe and free speech, while you can't really speak about Europe as a whole even as much as you can the US, it seems to follow a policy that's closer to the forum this article is about. Germany has laws on hate speech and anti-Semitism, for example. That's not 'free speech' but it is moderation on a national scale.