Sorry MN, but the personal attacks against conservative voters are too much

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And they are preventing me enjoying and properly engaging with the site.

Obviously, I realise politics can be divisive and I’ve got no issue at all with robust debate, disagreeing with policies and to be honest, up to a point some name calling and insult exchanging might be expected. Not from me, I might add, but I’m explaining I wouldn’t be making this post if it was one thread or person.

So again I’ve seen ‘sorry but everyone I know who votes Tory is a cunt.’

I don’t think it’s acceptable. It’s happening everywhere - discussions about relationships with friends and families, cunt-Tory dads coming for Christmas, my cunt-ex-best-friend voted tory. There’s a hundred and one wide-eyed ‘but just WHY did people’ threads. And each one has insults that are downright nasty.

I couldn’t vote Corbyn. Difficult decision but there we are. Two words - Lily. Madigan. And if you want a few more, IRA, anti semitism, women’s rights, bankrupt country. I’m sure labour voters are groaning and rolling their eyes but the point is, I don’t judge anyone based on these, so why on Earth is the tory abuse acceptable?

I really think MN needs to step in or the site is going to become a left wing echo chamber.

Hi OP,

Thanks for raising this with us - we totally understand where you're coming from here. It's a divisive subject and it can be quite robust.

Please can you report the posts that are concerning you? We will take a look.

I kind of agree with you about mumsnet but to be fair in real life I’ve found it to be the opposite. I’ve not been able to say who I voted for because all my friends keep telling me how thick they think labour voters are. And we’re only 20! I think we all just have to accept that people see different things as important.

Given the low level of intellegence of Labour voters it's a good thing they lost.
posted on a thread about the poor picked on tory voters.
think you will find its not just labour voters that are being insulting,

I don't think personal attacks, name calling and mindless abuse are appropriate in any walk of life. But politics are highly divisive atm. People are really angry and really scared. So it's bound to be emotive and create high reaction in people.

I could say that if this is all you have to worry about in life then you are definitely a Tory but that would be uncalled for.

People are entitled to differing opinions Marzipan but it's deeply unpleasant to be abusive to people with differing opinions-that's the Op's point. It's unacceptable that your "friends" ' response to your choices is to call you thick, and it's equally unacceptable to call Tory voters thick/fascist/cunt (or "thick, fascist cunt").

Exactly pil

I was a longtime Labour voter. I’ve changed. I’m sorry. I could not support Corbyn.

There have been some truly vile and insulting remarks on many threads of late, it has made MN an uncomfortable place to be at times.

We are lucky that we live in a country where we are free to vote for whoever we want to vote for. Many people in other parts of the world don't have that luxury,, and we would do well to remember that.

What I get annoyed at is each side's insistence that the insults are a one-way street - almost everyone seems to be blind to their own side's rudeness and they only notice the other side's.

I don't get into political discussions on here unless they are lighthearted but I do read them and have noted plenty of personal remarks aimed at Labour voters. It's swings and roundabouts.

What I get annoyed at is each side's insistence that the insults are a one-way street - almost everyone seems to be blind to their own side's rudeness and they only notice the other side's

Absolutely and obviously i agree with blue as well

There are insults thrown around on masses of threads, report them and see if MNHQ deletes them, obviously they will if they are personal attacks

I really don’t understand what you want MNHQ to do, its a self reporting site....wait , that doesn’t sound right but you know what i mean

Do you have any suggestions as to what they can do...ban anyone who says anything mean about tories? But being mean to labour voters is ok? Or just no meaness to anyone, which would be lovely i agree

On the FWR there are no generalisations allowed on one specific topic, that could work I suppose...if it was used for EVERYONE