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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Idealism is fine, and perfectly normal in the young. Live your life by ideals, if it makes you happy. The problem is when we try to make other people subscribe to our ideals. I don't want social justice warriors parsing every word I speak for wrong-thought any more than I want religious fundamentalists doing the same. If sharing this world with people who hold different beliefs from you (and I don't mean you, MattyC) is so distressing, then you're going to find it tough to get on in life.
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Totally, but this is not unique to the "new left" or whatever people are calling (I'm not sure what falls into this category). I think it kind of boils down to intolerance vs intolerance of intolerance. The right tends to go about the bolded by exclusion or restriction of the people that disagree with them, or by trying to hold onto discriminatory practices under the guise of traditionalism, and much of those disagreements are based in things that fall under the "intolerence" category, as they are largely things that can't be changed (homosexuality, issues of race and gender, etc..). When you combine that with people that literally won't change what they think, no matter what evidence they are presented with (climate change the big one), yes it's very distressing. And I concede that those people exist on the left, and they are just as dumb.
The left rage stems from seeing stuff like what Trump is saying, and being astonished that there is a significant portion of that population that agrees with him. I can't even comprehend how that's possible. And then listening to the Republicans, who are supposedly less crazy, and have them be Carson, and Rubio and Bush, all of whom have said things that are just straight up, flat out wrong, and no one seems to say anything about it. It's entertaining until you think that one of these clowns could have their fingers on the button of an arsenal of nukes. The right is mostly afraid of the government taking their money and giving it to poor people. The left is mostly afraid that these people are actually going to cause/perpetuate (usually in exchange for the invisible force of money) real, physical problems (like our environment going to crap, or full blown wars).
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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, I was just going to say that as well. Most of the left-leaning posters on here are only left-leaning on social issues. I don't see too many economic socialists, anarchists, etc. here.
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It's tough to get behind left-leaning social issues without going into socialist economics.