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Originally Posted by GioforPM
You are applying a concept which you believe to be left wing to a situation to which it has never been applied, in order to make some sort of point against a position that no one is actually taking. I defy you to find anyone who has promoted such an idea. And even if you did, it's certainly not something that has ever been accepted.
No one promoting equality of outcome as a concept, especially liberals, has ever said that crimes are identical and thus the punishment should also be identical. The closest you can come is something like the three strikes rule, or minimum sentences, which are certainly not policies that came from the left.
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Sadly, those policies were implemented by Clinton, and Trump is actually implementing long-needed prison reforms despite his rhetoric.
But otherwise I agree with you 100%. It's kind of like those who advocate minimum sentences and want to take sentencing discretion away from judges because they decide in a vacuum that the system is too lenient.
Having said all that, while I agree that it is usually the left arguing nuance and the right generally sees things more black and white, and I abhor buzz phrases like cancel culture, woke, etc., there are clearly many examples of the social media shaming trends obliterating debate and nuance.