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Originally Posted by Red Slinger
Sure, and where's the article titled "How Rhetoric on the Right Fuels PC Culture on the Left"?
Why is it the Left always seems to be held to a higher standard than the Right?
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they do it
too isn't a great look. And it isn't great political tactics either.
Alienating centrists and moderates is dumb politics. For decades, it was the right doing the alienating and driving people away with their anti-intellectualism, shaming, and scolding. However, in the last few years the left have become the finger-waggers. The ones who refuse to recognize distinctions or nuance.
If you look at the individuals in the newly-dubbed Intellectual Dark Web, I'm pretty sure most of them are lifelong Democrats. Most are atheists. Most support gay marriage. And they spent much of their lives resisting and denouncing the reactionary right.
Now they're criticizing the progressive left for employing the same tactics their old enemies on the right used. And because some on the genuine alt-right delight in the discomfort the IDW is causing progressives, progressives have turned around and denounced the IDW, and anyone who finds their arguments persuasive, as ultra-conservative bigots themselves. And they're turning a crapload of people they have a lot of common goals with into enemies.
It's idiotic politics, and the adults in the room have tried to step in and point this out. Of course, as soon as the adults point out the folly and excesses of the movement,
they're denounced as bigots as well. And so it goes, the purity tests getting more and more severe. Which is why the progressive identarian movement will never succeed in its aims - its very nature means it will tear itself to pieces. The only question is how much damage the movement will do to civil institutions before it's spent as a political force, and whether that damage will be decisive in removing the obstacles to the enduring tyranny of a demagogue.