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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
What I take issue with is the attitude that they are anywhere near as threatening to our society as the radical right. The radical left - largely because of focus on identity - tends to eat itself. Fights break out among groups championing different narrow agendas, faculties at universities are paralyzed with inactivity, and protesters can’t even agree on what they’re marching for.
Meanwhile, the federal government in the US actually had a policy to separate children from parents and detain them. There are many, many far right politicians, lobby groups, and think tanks with enormous power. They have a news station. It just isn’t equivalent, and should not be held as such.
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As an educated, liberal, urban Canadian, the radical left is more of a threat to me and my values than right-wing Americans. Canada's national broadcaster has been largely captured by the identarian left. On anything touching on social issues, the CBC's stance is indistinguishable from radical leftist academics. Many corporations are adopting the same dogma, as are traditional mainstream media. And the problem is a great many people who aren't ardent identarian Marxists go along with it because A) it's the thing you do in polite, progressive society, and B) (and this is where polarization comes in) because they somehow feel that as the right gets more extreme, the left needs to as well as a sort of counterbalance.
So that's why I challenge the far left more than the right - it's where I live. Personally, I don't see any purpose in me challenging far-right politics. I don't know any people who follow it. I don't think anything would be accomplished by joining the millions of people denouncing Donald Trump. The folly of the far right seems pretty self-evident to me, and not worth wasting breath over.
If I lived in rural Kansas I'd probably feel differently. But I don't. And I don't see much point in concerning myself with the domestic politics of a foreign country, except insofar as it demonstrates wide-spread social changes that are happening across the developed world.