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Most of the hate is coming from the left, but this is "acceptable hate" if is directed at white/straight/christian/men, or other bogeyman they can come up with

Most of the hate is coming from the left, but this is "acceptable hate" if is directed at white/straight/christian/men, or other bogeyman they can come up with to justify their eternal victimhood. The divisions are only getting wider, and it is helpful to neither side. When people say racism is on the rise, they couldn't be more correct. White-racism is on the rise, and tolerated. The increase in white supremacists I see as largely a reaction to this. I'm not a selective racist and I despise racism in all of its forms. Sexism too. Sexism against men is also very real, especially in tech. A diversity quota is a sexism quota. A person's gender should not factor into a hiring decision at all.

diminoten 8y ago
I think you're stark raving mad if you believe the left is responsible for the hatred going on in the world right now, but it's honestly not important where it's coming from so much as the fact that it's very hard to start a new social media website right now, because you're immediately hit with questions about where you stand on free speech, in a way that Reddit and Twitter (and others) never had to deal with. Every new social media company is basically planting their flag very far in one direction or another (either blocking hate speech or leaning in entirely).
- sparkie 8y ago
  The left are creating divisions that don't exist anymore. That were solved decades ago. It has gone from "equality for all" to "more equality to those who didn't have the same equality in the past." It is complete lunacy. The best thing for people to do is reject both this idiocy, and the idiocy of the far-right which wants to revert things back to the old way. This is what the people in the IDW are aiming to achieve - to bring people back to having discourse rather than bickering and widening the polarisation. We have racists and sexists on both the left and right. We need to denounce racism and sexism in all of their forms, else the problem is only going to increase

diminoten 8y ago

I think you're stark raving mad if you believe the left is responsible for the hatred going on in the world right now, but it's honestly not important where it's coming from so much as the fact that it's very hard to start a new social media website right now, because you're immediately hit with questions about where you stand on free speech, in a way that Reddit and Twitter (and others) never had to deal with. Every new social media company is basically planting their flag very far in one direction or another (either blocking hate speech or leaning in entirely).

sparkie 8y ago
The left are creating divisions that don't exist anymore. That were solved decades ago. It has gone from "equality for all" to "more equality to those who didn't have the same equality in the past." It is complete lunacy. The best thing for people to do is reject both this idiocy, and the idiocy of the far-right which wants to revert things back to the old way. This is what the people in the IDW are aiming to achieve - to bring people back to having discourse rather than bickering and widening the polarisation. We have racists and sexists on both the left and right. We need to denounce racism and sexism in all of their forms, else the problem is only going to increase