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It’s not just the extreme left which is most frequently engaged in mob mentality of suppression, cancel culture is also from extreme right: Carhartt’s boycott f
by systemvoltage 5y ago
It’s not just the extreme left which is most frequently engaged in mob mentality of suppression, cancel culture is also from extreme right: Carhartt’s boycott for instituting vaccine policy.
I have started seeing people that camp out in these echo chambers as uncompassionate, immoral and fundamentally dangerous people. Dangerous in the sense that they’re toxic for a peaceful democracy.
- drewcoo 5y agoThe "extreme left" is not doing this. Those of us who are over here are deeply concerned about civil liberties even of people we don't like. Just like the ACLU used to be, defending Nazis because if you take away their speech, who's next? The suppression is coming from "moderate" liberals. They're the ones who captured the ACLU when they suddenly got lots of money and grew and became the anti-Trump league. I'm not a Trumper, but he's much less of a threat to civil liberties than those moderate liberals. In the same way the ACLU has flipped, perceptions of a simple left/right divide need to change. Old labels don't make sense.
- jimbokun 5y ago> It’s not just the extreme left which is most frequently engaged in mob mentality of suppression, cancel culture is also from extreme right: Agree 100%. This is a bipartisan issue and our discourse is being dictated more and more by the political fringes.