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Good. Far-right hate is unacceptable, and no company with a conscience should ever support it.

• xfitm3 7y ago
  Far left is no better than far right - nobody is even listening to each other anymore.
  • WAHa_06x36 7y ago
    The far left is not killing people. The far right is, in significant numbers. Do you see a difference now?
    • kshatrea 7y ago
      If you consider communism as far left, then yes the far left has absolutely killed millions. If you do not consider communism far left, I don't know what to tell you.
      • untog 7y ago
        Expanding your criteria to encompass all of history isn't really all that helpful. Today, in the actual situation we are experiencing as opposed to political movements that have been dead for decades, the far right are more violent than the far left by a large margin.
        • dagw 7y ago
          far right are more violent than the far left by a large margin. Not that I necessarily disagree with you, but you're going to have to define your terms more narrowly if you want your argument to hold. Which countries, who's "we", are we talking state actors or individuals, how to Maoist rebel groups in Asia and South America feature into your calculus etc.
          • untog 7y ago
            Given what we're talking about here (i.e. Gab) I'm referring to US-based groups.
          • WAHa_06x36 7y ago
            We are talking about what is relevant in the here and now. We are talking about murders that are happening now.
            • DuskStar 7y ago
              Ok, so there's no far-right murders happening NOW. Because NOW is an instant, a single point in time. Which means you need a time range to care about. And 'relevant'? Is a murder in Sri Lanka relevant? New Zealand? Venezuela? Just the US? You seem to be being as obtuse as possible.
      • dagw 7y ago
        I suspect he's talking about individuals and activist groups in the US and Europe, rather than governments, state actors, and more formal armed militias and rebel groups.
        • jamsch 7y ago
          Broadly speaking, one side believes that the government should only own guns while the other side believes that everyone should own guns. So that makes sense that you won't likely see a radical leftist use guns but you could very much see an authoritarian radical leftist government use weapons against it's defenceless civilians.
          • boobsbr 7y ago
            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_shooting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Congressional_baseball_sh...
  • dagw 7y ago
    Far left is no better than far right Perhaps true in aggregate across all countries and history. Absolutely not true in any given local situation.
    • DuskStar 7y ago
      You're kidding, right? There's no situation in which the far right is better than the far left? Even when the far left launches a terrorist attack? It sounds like you're defining 'far right' to be worse than 'far left', and then presenting that relationship as your conclusion.
      • dagw 7y ago
        That's not at all what I was trying to say (and reading what I wrote I can see how it could be misunderstood). The far left has obviously in very many places and at very many times been absolutely horrific. My point was that claiming that there is an equivalence between the two in general (and specifically today in the US for example) is I believe false. Basically talking about the "far left" and "far right" in the abstract is meaningless as terms meaning nothing in and of themselves. You have to talk about it in a particular time and a particular place for it to have any meaning.
• teddyh 7y ago
  “What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”