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The problem I have with this statement is recently(past 4-5 years) the left has gone extremely far in their beliefs and ideas. Take real life examples like - co

The problem I have with this statement is recently(past 4-5 years) the left has gone extremely far in their beliefs and ideas. Take real life examples like - completely disbanding the police, emptying prisons, outlawing all criminal laws. Deciding that people of a certain race/social class are the cause of all problems. Destruction of city statues without due process. These ideas are dangerous for any functioning society and saying every idea from 30 years ago is bad or backwards is wrongheaded. In addition alot of the far left is pinning 'nazi' or 'facsict' on any politician or idea that does not meet their ever changing ideas. Even feminists are now getting trampled on if their ideas don't meet up to the week culture temperature checks.

southeastern 6y ago
>Deciding that people of a certain race/social class are the cause of all problems. The thing I love about HN is that it both is one of the most progressive and least so places on the internet. Say what you will but there's no objective way in which Cali is "Deciding that people of a certain race/social class are the cause of all problems". I'm assuming you're talking about white people? Let's not forget Silicon Valley is mostly white with a minority of Asians mixed in, and no one's trying to take it down for that reason. Yet these comments are always way high up. Move to Texas if you want, but don't think that Texans want a bunch of Silicon Valley liberals who, in their eyes and according to their news sources, are responsible for censoring the alt right on FB, YT, and twitter.
rtheunissen 6y ago
So much of what you just said is completely untrue. Not a single leading Democrat is calling for any of those things. Emptying prisons? Completely disbanding the police? Outlawing criminal laws? What does that even mean?
- subsubzero 6y ago
  here are some facts to back my argument: AOC (a leading democratic congresswomen) has called for complete prison abolishment - https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/yes-aoc-tweeted-she-wants-101400950.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/yes-aoc-tweeted-she-want... A insightful piece from the NYtimes talking about 'abolishing' not defunding the police - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol... Here's another article about when Jacob Frey (mayor of Minneapolis) is asked by a sea of left wing activists if he will abolish the police, he said no and was greeted by a sea of boos - https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0615-abolish-police-bad-idea-20200615-o7toxmerrfhhrott3mw2oo5p2a-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0615-abo... CA decriminalizing shoplifting, which is fueling a huge boom in theft across the west coast - https://www.city-journal.org/west-coast-shoplifting-boom https://www.city-journal.org/west-coast-shoplifting-boom

southeastern 6y ago

>Deciding that people of a certain race/social class are the cause of all problems. The thing I love about HN is that it both is one of the most progressive and least so places on the internet. Say what you will but there's no objective way in which Cali is "Deciding that people of a certain race/social class are the cause of all problems". I'm assuming you're talking about white people? Let's not forget Silicon Valley is mostly white with a minority of Asians mixed in, and no one's trying to take it down for that reason. Yet these comments are always way high up. Move to Texas if you want, but don't think that Texans want a bunch of Silicon Valley liberals who, in their eyes and according to their news sources, are responsible for censoring the alt right on FB, YT, and twitter.

rtheunissen 6y ago

So much of what you just said is completely untrue. Not a single leading Democrat is calling for any of those things. Emptying prisons? Completely disbanding the police? Outlawing criminal laws? What does that even mean?

subsubzero 6y ago
here are some facts to back my argument: AOC (a leading democratic congresswomen) has called for complete prison abolishment - https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/yes-aoc-tweeted-she-wants-101400950.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/yes-aoc-tweeted-she-want... A insightful piece from the NYtimes talking about 'abolishing' not defunding the police - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol... Here's another article about when Jacob Frey (mayor of Minneapolis) is asked by a sea of left wing activists if he will abolish the police, he said no and was greeted by a sea of boos - https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0615-abolish-police-bad-idea-20200615-o7toxmerrfhhrott3mw2oo5p2a-story.html https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-0615-abo... CA decriminalizing shoplifting, which is fueling a huge boom in theft across the west coast - https://www.city-journal.org/west-coast-shoplifting-boom https://www.city-journal.org/west-coast-shoplifting-boom