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Maybe, if you're going by body count over the last year or so. Look a bit further back and the equivalence is fair. If anything, far left ideologies are respo
by hyperdunc 9y ago
Maybe, if you're going by body count over the last year or so.
Look a bit further back and the equivalence is fair.
If anything, far left ideologies are responsible for more deaths than far right ones.
- dTal 9y agoI do not think the distinction is meaningful in the extreme. Are we really going to claim that Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia were in some way polar opposites? The correct distinction is bigotry vs inclusiveness, freedom vs slavery, rights vs oppression. The murdered woman was a civil rights activist, peacefully protesting white supremacists. To lump her in with her murderer as an "extreme idiot" is to do violence both to her memory and to the entire history of civil rights in America. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms, and I respectfully invite the downvoters of my previous remark to explain why they disagree.
- hyperdunc 9y agoOf course there is no excuse for her death. And yes, the far left and far right are very similar, which is why I've previously argued that framing all this in terms of an authoritarian-libertarian spectrum is more useful than using a left-right one.