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>I've seen tons of recent support for censorship from ideas and speech the (left? I wouldn't consider it actually left) doesn't like. The left has always been
by midoridensha 4y ago
>I've seen tons of recent support for censorship from ideas and speech the (left? I wouldn't consider it actually left) doesn't like.
The left has always been pro-censorship: Stalin and Mao, for instance, set up societies with lots of censorship.
The right is also pro-censorship: think Hitler, or any religious conservatives for that matter.
- AlphaSite 4y agoThe extreme left and right are both fairly problematic, although for different reasons and to different degrees.
- midoridensha 4y agoWell when comparing Hitler, Mao, and Stalin, I don't really see any significant degree of difference... If you're talking about what modern Americans consider "left" and "right", though, I'd agree, but what Americans consider "left" generally isn't very far left, and it depends on who you ask: talk to an internationally-minded American and they'll say the Democratic party is centrist at best, or center-right. Talk to a Trump voter and they'll say that party is "far-left radical communists".
- snovv_crash 4y agoOn economic issues and welfare, sure. But when it comes to gender activism the US left is way further over than the rest of the world, to the point that they've alienated a large part of their original support base.
- hackerlight 4y agoTo different degrees? I'm not sure about that... The right is significantly more dangerous now, but I don't see that as a historically universal truth.
- int_19h 4y agoAuthoritarians have always been pro-censorship. Libertarians have always been anti-censorship. Both exist on either end of the ideological spectrum. Right-wing authoritarianism is a thing, and so is left-wing libertarianism.