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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The religious right was entirely mainstream for pretty much my entire life - they weren't extremists by any reasonable definition even though there were obviously extremists among them. Nor are the people expressing this authoritarian impulse on the right nowadays. The "woke" element on the left is totally mainstream at this point as well, even though it's mainly concentrated among the upper middle class and above.
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Perhaps my experience was different going to the University of Victoria, but there were always people on the left who wanted to shout down honest debate. It's actually pretty humorous to me, as what is considered left/right often shifts over time, so many of the points they were shouting down are now considered popular by the left.
The left has, for a long time, had major institutions that are just as authoritarian: unions, academia, fringe groups, extremist groups, etc...