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"the need for baddies and an existential battle of good vs evil" I would argue this motivates a fair bit of the hard right too. Think of the folks fighting the

"the need for baddies and an existential battle of good vs evil" I would argue this motivates a fair bit of the hard right too. Think of the folks fighting the "murder" of children, they come up with baddies (abortion doctors), take the law into their own hands (bombings etc). Same thing with the "stolen election". I'm not speaking about the merits of either of these issues, just that they serve to drive a similar situation on right.

abernard1 5y ago
> Think of the folks fighting the "murder" of children, they come up with baddies (abortion doctors) This has been Christian doctrine for 2000 years: they didn't "come up with it." It's in the Didache, which is a first century document and puts abortion in the same category as pedophilia. In contrast, there will never be a point where the left stops finding new niche epithets and specialized victims/oppressors because the Hegelian worldview requires it. A mere 10 years ago, the idea of TERFs or people oppressing others because they didn't include pronouns would be unthinkable. Once that bridge is crossed, more bridges will inevitably need to be created. We live in a world where the left thinks thousands of unarmed black men are killed every year, when the number in 2019 was... 14 [1] This same worldview thinks that there's a mass of white supremacists seeking to take over the country, and yet, where is the mass number of crimes that we hear about? If they were there, don't you think we'd hear about specific cases on the news, given that literally half of all unarmed black men killed by police made national news? [1] https://www.manhattan-institute.org/police-black-killings-homicide-rates-race-injustice https://www.manhattan-institute.org/police-black-killings-ho...