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I can understand the viewpoint you have, though I don't agree with it. Radical ideas have always looked for ways to spread around and influence people. As in w
by kumarvvr 6y ago
I can understand the viewpoint you have, though I don't agree with it.
Radical ideas have always looked for ways to spread around and influence people. As in with any idea, there are good ones (Why should a worker not have paid holidays, or days off, or have work life balance, education rights, voting rights, etc) and bad ones (the ones we see espoused by many radical right wingers like the claimed inferiority of the black race and the superiority of the white race)
Now, 74 million Americans voted for a vision of trump, that mixes a lot of good ideas with some very terrible ones. And out of the 74 million voters for him, I am sure many of them voted for the promise of jobs, stability, incomes, etc. Unfortunately, a significant & vocal minority of his supporters have shown hard right and often immoral ideas.
In the past, messaging and reach was a carefully cultivated art practiced by seasoned politicians and ideologists.
Today, the situation is different. It is very very easy to gather people into a group, isolate them and radicalize them. You see it happening everyday on the social media.
What, then, is the solution to this? It is a problem because a society must be coherent and move forward together, otherwise it fractures and implodes from within.
For a society, there are many aspects that affect it's prosperity. Jobs, distribution of wealth, prevalence of opportunities, justice, etc.
If you have allow one small section of ideologues hijack the conversation and demand for continuation of radicalization, that society will collapse. Just think about Nazism, Stalinism, etc. All those societies had one thing in common, the ability to radicalize and brainwash population.
So what about Parler? Banning is the right thing to do.
Out of those 74 million who voted, they have avenues like FB, Twitter, IG, etc to engage and communicate.
That small group who wants to radicalize the society, have their voices cut off, and that is how it should be.
- bun_at_work 6y agoThis is pretty well put. I definitely agree with your points here. I would like to point out that Nazism and Stalinism are localized versions of the same thing: fascism. trump is the current leader of American Fascism. He should have his voice on major platforms cut off. What people don't seem to realize about democracy is that fascism is the weak point.
- bluescrn 6y agoIf you're only exposed to left-wing media, you only see right-wing radicalisation. If you're only exposed to right-wing media, you only see left-wing radicalisation. Both tribes are convinced that the other is dangerously radical.
- kumarvvr 6y agoOk. Can you name the three top radical ideas of each side? Just curious.
- roenxi 6y agoThe argument is likely that neither side is actually all that radical, so the answer to your question is reasonably "No".
- kumarvvr 6y agoMy opinion is that right wing ideas are more extreme than left wing ones. Sure, both of them have good ideas and radical ones, but radical ones of left seem to move the society as a whole in a good direction while right wing ones seem to move them in a direction that threatens the existence of the society itself.