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TonsofPuppies said:
Torillian said:

So I guess my issue would be you have apparently defined the alt-right as only being avowed neonazis and the "far left" as a global conspiracy of academics and tech giants. In which case you are right, the left would be more insidious in that world view, but I would fundamentally disagree with the world view in the first place. 

It's not a "world view", it's a fact. It's not really a conspiracy, either, because it's so blatantly obvious. It's been proven time and time again that Google leans far to the left and their search algorithms are skewered to favour liberal agendas. They recently claimed in public that they have no internal "blacklist" only to have said blacklist leak out a few days later. So if you think that the tech giants are unbiased, you are very naive or simply not paying attention.

It's a question of scale. Even if the tech giants are biased the idea that they are as biased to the left as neo-nazis are biased to the right is just ridiculous. I guess you'd call it a false equivalency that you are equating gender studies professors (making some assumptions on who in academia you take issue with but I'd say that's a reasonable guess since I don't think it's the physicists) to the alt-right. Sure if you define your line there then the far left seems more insidious because everyone who is trying to push things towards the left is far left. What do you call those trying to push politics to the right through means other than nazi marches?



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