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twitter itself is left-leaning (in the liberal sense), yes - are we pretending that progressivism and far-right ideology have equal legitimacy? parler was found
by beaconstudios 5y ago
twitter itself is left-leaning (in the liberal sense), yes - are we pretending that progressivism and far-right ideology have equal legitimacy? parler was founded to be a haven for the latter.
I might be out on a limb with this, but I don't think we should be giving far-right people a platform to spread their views.
- Jtype 5y agoSo you think we should be able to label a group of people and restrict their rights? You don't see how this could be a problem?
- beaconstudios 5y agoI think that if your views include "we should kill people because of their race", your views should be banned off every platform, yes. Trying to imply that that's the same as racism is a false equivalence.
- zozbot234 5y agoLet's not pretend that this is just about progressivism (though it's not like even Progressive ideas were ever exempt from being highly problematic: eugenics anyone?). You could find plenty of literal tankies posting on Twitter before Putin made the whole 'tankie' thing rather unpopular.
- beaconstudios 5y agoare tankies progressive? I think their primary axiom is hating America. Either way, I agree that there's a range of legitimate discourse and it shouldn't just be the current flavour of progressivism. I was more cutting out a negative exception for the far right than a positive exception for libsocs.