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Torillian on 29 August 2019
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TonsofPuppies said:
Torillian said:

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?

You are correct about a question of scale. However, it is also a question of context. Google is not as far-left as the Neo-nazis are far right - you are obviously correct about this. However, let's imagine the political spectrum as an actual line. Let's say that the neo-nazis are all the way (100%) to the right side, which is a fair assessment. Now let's place Google. I think it would be fair to put them about 50% of the way between the center and the far-left. So, not extreme far left, but certainly heavily left leaning. Now, take a step back and imagine which group has more influence and power over the population. Is it the 100% right Neo-nazis who collectively probably make up a group of a few thousand (or less) people? Or is it 50% left Google, which controls that vast majority (over 90%) of the world's internet searches?

In which case I would point you to the government which is currently right leaning nationally and locally on a grand scale. If being 50% to the far right but having more influence is the important part than I think conservatives having control over the executive, judicial and half the legislative branches is more meaningful than professors being liberal. 

To be fair this only relates to US politics but given the protests we're talking about were in Seattle that seems reasonable. 



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