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Charles Johnson8/15/2021 2:58:00 pm PDT

From Wikipedia:

The site originally had a “right wing”[2] orientation. It was one of the most well-known and vehement pro-War on Terrorism websites in the early days of the blogosphere. Johnson stated in 2006:
I’m not pretending I’m giving equal time to both sides. But I do think what I’m advocating, and what I believe in, is the right side.[3]

After eight years of being a leading right wing blog, LGF started condemning racism and the far-right (especially the Belgian party Vlaams Belang). After that, the site abruptly switched sides and now “LGF has become better known for the various fights it picks with many on the right.”[who?][4] During the transition period, Johnson deleted many of his more extreme past entries on the site, deleted entire comment sections, and banned many of the former right wing commentators from the site.[5]

LGF did NOT originally have a “right wing orientation.” That’s simply wrong. In fact it was the opposite. LGF mainly focused on design and programming stuff, but any political posts were very much left wing-oriented.

And “abruptly switched sides” is nothing but a biased way of putting this, supported by no evidence. It was anything but abrupt - it happened over the course of months, maybe years, in which I was increasingly disenchanted with the right.

The only thing that’s objectively true about this biased garbage is that I banned many right wing commenters. I did, absolutely, and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.