Persecution complexes are a red herring.

Society does coalesce into like-minded groups, usually with different ideological trends than the larger society as a whole. Either we can try to analyze treatment of X in subgroup Y, for any X, or we've set ourselves up for dead end reasoning with the outcomes predetermined. That doesn't mean X1 is the same as X2 on any axis. The strong point found in a slight rework of the grandparent's point is that for a large number of communities on the internet conservatives are the minority group. The bifurcation along the left-right axis is one, if not the most, visible splits on the internet that websites fall on one side of.

Also, persecution complexes are not unique to the empowered, it's just a fools errand (and asking for a flame war) to try and engage in well intentioned discussion to untangle actual persecution from perceived persecution among dis-empowered groups.

>Conservatives aren't an underrepresented or disempowered group (the relevant sense of "minority"), even on the net.

Regardless, silencing or demonizing any group is wrong.

It appears you missed my point about the Left capturing fields, it refers to this sort of thing: https://www.google.com/search?q=no+irish As in I wouldn't try to become a scientist today, vs. back in the '80s, I'd have to avoid fields captured by the Left's Gleichschaltung.

In that sense, there was a "German Science", more specifically Deutsche Physik, in that no Jews were allowed to participate.

And no need to go off in partisan weeds, let alone imply there's much overlap between conservatives and Republicans.

Sorry for my lack of clarity. I'm using "Stalinist" as shorthand for constantly changing party lines, which Stalin was infamous for, e.g. the public about face of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, obviously reversed on 22 June 1941, the day when Communists e.g. joined the French resistance, stopped sabotaging US rearmament, etc.

As for "cutting down trees in Kolyma" ... well, a few minutes with Google just now indicates he's become an unperson on the web, something else Stalin was notorious for doing. While I doubt Eich's been reduced to hard labor in a rural region unless he just wanted to get away from it all, who denies his career is effectively over? Unless, of course, he's doing things anonymously?