We're part of the reason it's that way. The Dems and their base need to start getting serious every two years, otherwise the GOP will just keep winning until the baby boomers die off.
Vice News: Extremism Experts Are Starting to Worry About the Left
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We're part of the reason it's that way. The Dems and their base need to start getting serious every two years, otherwise the GOP will just keep winning until the baby boomers die off.
buncha freedom hating a-holes.
The Faceless Master
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is this like when the teachers do nothing when the kid complains and when the kid finally defends himself, they suspend the kid and the bully?
both sides etc.
both sides etc.
Lol @ leftist extremism in a country that doesn't even have a left. Meanwhile we have a proto-fascist in the white house, racist police, right wing militias that are armed to the teeth and emboldened white nationalists that murder people--and that shit all "normal". Maybe the agitation from left leaning people, is just the logical conclusion to all this structural and physical violence they have to deal with? Just a thought.
JordanN
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In an Extreme Left society, everyone is forced to consume kale smoothies and live in a tree.
BrutishMrFish
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Wanting to oppress black and brown people, Muslims, women, and LGBT people isn't an extreme right-wing position in this country, it's a standard feature of American conservatism.
Pop-O-Matic
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Nah, they just suspend the kid while not doing anything about the bully.
A Nation Under Breckin
The far left is against all forms of oppression or exploitation, so we are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, and so forth and especially anticapitalist and antifascist.
Typically we are socialists, communists, and/or anarchists.
nkarafo
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I would guess they are against freedom of speech.
old manatee
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The right is in charge of everything and everything is on fire and people want to point at the left. Same shit different day.
dynamitejim
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More like the teacher is actually encouraging the bully. But yeah, close enough.
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Go with authoritarianism, thought crime, anti-free speech...at the end of the day they look like the same thing when it comes to freedom of thought and dissent
Where the fuck did you get that out of what I was saying? Is Bernie-voting Bret Weinstein a white nationalist? Is Jordan Peterson? Nicholas Christakis? These guys have been vilified and threatened over daring to push back/dissent against hard leftism. Those tactics are unacceptable, period.
nephilimdj
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Dude who did the attack most likely was one of those who went to a Trump rally and cheered Bernie and threw punches when people told them to leave, we saw that shitt happen last year.
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TestOfTide
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I'm sorry....are you ACTUALLY suggesting that the US Military should be COMPLETELY DISMANTLED?
Please tell me this is some joke post.
Far left would classically be the opposite I would think. But we're post gamergate now so who knows!
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The problem is that the concept of "freedom for all" and the absence of all the other things you mentioned have only ever been available for white men. That's why they alone are more likely to lean so hard to the center.
TestOfTide
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I love how you Trump fans are now trying to claim that everyone who protested Trump rallies are EXACTLY like the Scalise shooter.
Like, way to prove you are desperate to deflect the fact that your own side has the bigger tendency for violence.
I hate to start thia debate, but if you are going to outright define the far-left as the communists, then I wouldn't quite say that they are always antifascist.
Jill Stein is very far left, yet she constantly defends Vladimir Putin. Her running mate referred to Obama as an "Uncle Tom President". Her party argued that Hillary would be worse for this country than Trump.
gutter_trash
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I don't think that the Far-Left are yet at at 1970s of level weirdness.
but the Far-Right though has been gaining more ground
but the Far-Right though has been gaining more ground
gutter_trash
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Hierophant
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DAE if you fight back against a fascist you are the fascist?????
So is the right, when it comes to them being criticized or chastized or having their ignorance pointed out. That's not exclusive to SJWs.
show me receipts...
IrishNinja
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hiding hate & white supremacy under the guise of free speech doesn't make one anything but foolish - not every ignorant notion is due a platform. this is neither authoritarian nor complicated.
no, but they're apologists for such, so it's not surprising they've been under fire for that shit.
ding ding ding
the privilege on display with the "the REAL problem is some college campuses!!" mess is staggering, unless you're tucker carlson I imagine
We're against hate speech, which then gets slippery slope'd into us being against free speech, don't get it twisted, there are many countries with reasonable hate speech laws.
You can criticize Islam all you want, what we have a problem with is generalizing Muslim people as blood thirsty barbarians who shouldn't be welcome into the Western world or any variation of that, and sadly most of the Anti-Islam criticism turns into that.
MagnaderAlpha
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Given how the Right are pressing hard to label anybody that tells the truth a fake, dishonest person, and given that for a long time, censorship has been headed by those with Conservative, Christian values (the committee of "I know what's best for America, and will decide what CAN be and what CAN'T be" in movies, television, comics, and so on), I'd think THEY are the ones that are MORE against Freedom of Speech. Who are the ones that get angry the most when a flag is burned ( saying the burner should be killed because the the desecration of a most holy, national symbol), or someone doesn't stand up during the Nation Anthem out of protest? It ain't a majority of Liberals/Left-leaners, that's for sure.
I think the GOP has already successfully assassinated the constitution.
The US military has committed countless war crimes and was involved in dozens of imperialist wars and interventions leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths and widespread destruction. Any liberal even slightly cheering for this disgusting organization, which are usually fauxgressive Clinton-Centrists, is full of shit and a hypocrit of the highest order.
Cue the "but the others are even worse so we need our military we are still the better ones right?!" argument.
Hierophant
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Turns out growing up watching the effects of late capitalism makes young people desire some change who'd have thunk it
is it? you're making claims. show me. show me where Democrats try to outlaw speech. and sorry if I focus on US liberals. Just where my mind goes as I'm in the US and need to see receipts of it happening here.
Hierophant
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polyh3dron
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Back in elementary school I was the only one who got suspended in a fight with a bully. Granted, I smashed a desk cover over his head when he wasn't looking, but nobody else was doing anything about him and he did stop fucking with me and pretty much everyone else after that, so yeah.
Also, I'm not sure there is an extreme left.
The Technomancer
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whispers* don't tell anyone but I'm in one of those squads.
Here in Europe this stuff is more commonly associated with far right groups.
So far, none of this sounds that bad really, pretty agreeable overall.
Except this stuff:
"Stalin did nothing wrong"? That is basically holocaust denial bad.
I have no idea who this is.
Absolutely.
Any articles that describes Antifa orgs as extremists are playing into a far-right narrative. No left-wing organizations in the US commit unprovoked violence. Even their most questionably actions are attempts at state resistance or community self-defence.
The gleeful cosigning of alt-right rhetoric about Antifa by so many liberals, Vice included, is really distressing.
Methinks the only way it could happen is if a 3rd party actually managed to gather a strong pressence and following as to actually be a viable option.
Chances of that happening are extremely slim tho.
gutter_trash
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not really, it was just a "symbolic" motion" not a bill or law
Canadians are still free to critize religions
Hierophant
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Snowman Prophet of Doom
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This is a very strange definition of "apologists", given Bret Weinstein's crime was an objection to a change in the structure of a protest and a bureaucratic objection to the mechanisms of an equity council, and Christakis's crime was defending his wife when she sent out an email suggesting that it's not necessary for a university to formally discourage or ban stereotype Halloween costumes by its students.