curl-6 said:
The wrongs of the alt right are covered here pretty extensively already, for pages and pages. I've made it clear on multiple occasions that I find Trumpism to be awful. If you want me to come out and condemn it again, then yes, I condemn it. I'm not criticising the alt left to defend the alt right, I criticise it because in my view it contributed to the conditions that allowed the alt right to thrive. |
Don't you argue that left wingers being overly critical of people not on the same view, push people to the right?
Is the best solution there, to add more criticism?
More critically, I think your criticism comes across as hollow, when it's so selectively one sided (even to "balance" things out), but also when one side is objectively doing worse things. Some left wingers being schmucks about Charlie Kirk is not the same thing as the US government shutting down speech. Especially when that government is consistently looking the other way, when stuff happens the other way.
I don't know what the right thing to do is.
I've been frustrated with Era. I saw a good guy get banned for like a month because the mods thought he misgendered someone, even though he was talking about someone else. I don't think that heavy handedness helps anything.
But also, I can't let people be bullies. So there has to be some kind of line somewhere.
I can't pretend that I think I'm doing a good job. But I try to argue the ideas, and not attack the person. (I'm not claiming to be perfect. Frequently I fail, when I feel someone is clearly not interested in actually having a conversation.)