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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Overblown, sure. But not nearly as overblown as the reaction to a column in Brietbart calling for the U.S. to remove the voting franchise for all black citizens would have been. The mainstream media would have been all over that column, with analysis of what it means to democracy, the slide of the America into fascism, etc.
If liberals are anxious it's because liberal principles are under assault from both the left and the right.
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lol, you ought to pay attention to Brietbart more often, there have been way more numerous outlandish articles on Brietbart and you don't be even have to look to an obscure blog post from the South African version to find it.
I think my issue is that, as sort of stated above, old liberals hold so strongly to the idea that their ideology is pure and perfect that they end up in this weird state where they're more scared of the left than the right. They're more scared of the people that took liberal values and distorted them further left than they are of people who are opposed even to the idea of a liberal at their core, which is hilarious.
It's like a liberal chef saying "This is the way you make a pepperoni pizza (subbed in for old liberal utopia)."
The further left one uses ham instead of pepperoni, and they just add a ####load of ham. And then pineapple. They made a Hawaiian pizza.
The further right one makes shepherd's pie.
The liberal chef then looks at both, shakes their head and shrugs their shoulders at the shepherd's pie, and turns to berate the chef who made a Hawaiian pizza. It's a pizza, it's the same general concept, they just made one that nobody else seems to like, which makes people angry when you insist they order Hawaiian pizza and you have one slice. Anybody want leftovers? No, because it's Hawaiian, so I guess Marxist Jim in accounting gets all the leftovers because he's the jerk who made Hawaiian.
Where was I going with this? Right. Liberals complain ad nauseam about Hawaiian pizza when pepperoni is the only pizza that will do, but are generally reserved about criticising the chef who made a shepherd's pie instead of a pizza at all.
We're sitting here discussing an obscure blog post from South Africa, when there are plenty of crazy toxic "news" sources in our backyard that are partially responsible for getting a dangerous populist president elected who is DEFINITELY not a liberal. But sure, this blog post is important... I guess. Downfall of liberal values and the society we've all come to know and love, and all that. Not saying we can't react to both, but the response shouldn't be measurably the same or worse for the blog post from Africa.