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What opinions do you mean specifically? The question you asked is too vague to help us sort out the welcome from the unwelcome.
Remember: “lower taxes for businesses” is a mainstream conservative opinion, but so are “children should not be allowed to know of the existence of gay people” and also “Breonna Taylor probably deserved to die” and also “Dr. Fauci is a mass murderer” and also “Trump won in 2020” and also “more brown children should be put in cages”, etc., etc., etc.
If the conservative mainstream is so hateful and bigoted that most of their opinions would not be allowed on a well-regulated platform, that is not the fault of the platform and it does not suggest that the platform has to change just to accommodate conservatives.
One issue is that it sometimes gets hard to discuss something like "lower taxes for businesses" because some people will assume you want to murder all gay people and others come along who actually do want to do that and think they are on you're side...
When positions are too simplifed into left vs right and all your other positions are assumed to be in line with the left vs. right debate there will never be any real discussion.
Wrapping "lower tax for business" in the culture war business is something done by the right-wing media and major political parties themselves(mainly using it as a guise to hide behind hateful policy)...
Jumping to conclusions on someone who just says they are conservative is a form of prejudice just like any kind of stereotyping.
However, as soon as they bring stuff up that indicates they care a lot about what people do in the bedroom, bathroom or they characterize a lot of what they don't like as woke, the room for productive discussion narrows significantly.
fair enough!