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To give you an idea of what your comment sounds like: Does the content of the beliefs matter? Is it easier to be tolerant of free speech than Communism?
by antidesitter 7y ago
To give you an idea of what your comment sounds like:
Does the content of the beliefs matter? Is it easier to be tolerant of free speech than Communism?
- happytoexplain 7y agoI think this is a somewhat false equivalency. The number and extremity of alignment with catastrophic far-right ideology, while relatively small, is significantly larger than the same metrics for similarly catastrophic far-left ideologies in the US (in my opinion). While there are a lot of people who too-broadly level accusations of Naziism against conservatives, and vice versa for things like Communism, there is in fact a real issue at hand around the topic of far-left vs far-right ideologies, and I don't think it requires blind tribalism to have the opinion that one is much more rampant or destructive than the other. In my experience, most criticisms that are based around simply inverting the political sidedness of the claim at hand tend to unjustly ignore this.
- antidesitter 7y ago> The number and extremity of alignment with catastrophic far-right ideology, while relatively small, is significantly larger than the same metrics for similarly catastrophic far-left ideologies in the US What makes you think that? > one is much more rampant or destructive than the other You’re right about that. Communists killed far more people than Nazis ever did, destructive as the latter were.