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It's confusing how you criticize leftists for not realizing that they could theoretically be the target of these attacks while citing an extremely well-known ex
by geofft 6y ago
It's confusing how you criticize leftists for not realizing that they could theoretically be the target of these attacks while citing an extremely well-known example of leftists being the target of these attacks.
Leftists are generally aware of this risk, because today there is no shortage of similar social pressure against leftist ideas, and do not think it's a concern. The problem is not that it's never occurred to them.
One reason why it's not a concern is that there's no reason to believe that a principled stand against this tactic by the left will have any influence on the right. Conservatives in Hollywood in the middle of the last century did not blacklist communists in response to any similar activity by communists; they did so spontaneously. So there's no reason to fear an increased risk of use of this tactic. Nobody is getting ideas they didn't already have.
- zpeti 6y agoThis makes absolutely no sense, and to me proves just how ignorant the left are of what could happen to them. Censorship always becomes about those in power staying in power. Look no further than wall street bets. That had nothing to do with left right but about control and power. Of course no one in the mainstream media is willing to consider this, because apparently wsb is financial trumpism. Wake up. This is what the aclu warned about 50 years ago.
- Turing_Machine 6y agoFirst, it's not "criticism" to ask a clarifying question. I understand that not having a good answer makes you uncomfortable, but that's not "criticism". Second, you do understand that it's possible to believe that both are bad, right?
- geofft 6y agoI'm not uncomfortable, and I don't know why you think I am. I merely think you're factually incorrect in your assertion that the point you mention has not occurred to leftists. I do understand that it's possible to believe both are bad. I am informing you that leftists do not. (There's probably a more general phenomenon where centrists say that tools that can be used towards bad ends are bad, and people of a particular partisan tendency say that bad ends are bad and not to be blamed on the tool. For instance, liberals are generally not in favor of expanded gun rights, because they understand that guns can be used towards bad ends. Leftists are generally in favor of expanded gun rights, because they understand that, and also understand that guns can be used towards good ends.)