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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Where is extremist polarization happening on the left? What are some hugely popular left-wing conspiracies that have absolutely no basis in reality that are being shared on social media? What is the left-wing equivalent of QAnon?
This is not a both sides, many sides issue. A very large swath of conservatives have abandoned any sense of good reason and plunged head-first into extremist crazytown. That's not happening on the left. And no, I don't need to "get out of my liberal echo chamber". On Facebook, I'm friends with people with a variety of political views. Without exception, my liberal friends almost always share news from reputable sources that can be easily fact checked, and in the rare times that they share something that is false (or even only partially true), someone else almost always corrects them in the comments, and the OP admits their mistake for sharing something without checking its validity first. The few extremist conservative friends I have on Facebook live in an entirely different reality from the rest of us where facts simply don't exist. And my moderate conservative friends feel completely alienated and lost. They acknowledge the right-wing movement has been hijacked by lunatics, but they can't bring themselves to vote for a left or centre-left party/candidate.
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As you say, it's not equivalent, but they do exist. Anti-Vaxxers and PETA fanatics being two examples that come to mind.