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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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(so I read page 2 of cognitive biases and didn't realize there were two more pages and ended up causing a digression. Split.
The difference between the left and right is that the left is pro diversity of Demographics and the right is pro diversity of opinions.
Most on the left like diversity of opinion. Just not absolutely indiscriminate diversity of opinion. Like their opinions about you can be, you know, totally wrong (and vice versa, but you won't know that). For instance, 'all gays are pedophiles'. That's a not-entirely-unpopular opinion, and it's wrong, and it's a serious attack against around 1/10th of the population. It causes a lot of damage. That's not OK. There are a fair number of things like this.
Also, opinions that steadfastly cling to totally disproven positions on matters of fact and again cause harm - like, say, trickle-down economics, and in a different direction, falsifying the motivations behind the Confederacy, are also irksome. There are not too many things in this category, and many are mirrored by equivalents on the right, so it doesn't draw a distinction between the sides.
Most other economic arguments, cultural questions that don't boil down to false personal attacks, and so on, the left is not particularly un-accepting of differences. Especially compared to the Tea Party and its primarying the tar out of anyone who doesn't do exactly what they say. The defecting Berniecrats are the closest comparison there, and they don't add up to nearly as much a demand for political purity.
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Sargon
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The left likes to tell you what is your opinion and then attack it.
They call you a racist then attack you for being a racist.
So that is the dangers about "Punch a Nazi"(which is acceptable among the left).
While punching a Nazi might sound like a good thing to do, the problem is who decides who is a Nazi, and so you get a force to band or use violence against people you deem racist/have bad thoughts and opinions.
So that is the trouble, once you regulate ideas, it's easy to label someone as having bad ideas and banning him and not even let him talk.
If you don't allow any idea out, even the most racist ones, you are likely to end not allowing the moderate ideas as well.
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Sargon
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"Just not absolutely indiscriminate diversity of opinion"
Death999 said it.
Anyway, the radical right wing don't need to ban the left wing ideas. The left wing don't understand that any violence or banning of right wing really play into their hands.
Antifa even helped the Nazi party in the 30s to gain popularity because once they went on the street as vigilanty the Nazis could used that politically to say "Look, there is chaos in the streets, we need to fix this".
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Zanthius
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Death999: Can you move this discussion into a separate thread? I really dont think subjective generalizations about what constitutes the left belongs in a thread about cognitive biases.
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Sargon
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Well, nowadays you see left wingers more likely to ban right wing ideas/guests in university/people on twitter/people on the media.
The fact that the left throw so much slander, and accept no possibility of discussing different opinions only serve the right wingers.
In most free countries when you tell people "You are not allowed to listen to them." Or you tell people what they shouldn't do, people are automatically intrigued by it.
If you try to hide "bad ideas" long enough, they will take root in underground or alternative places and draw people there.
The fact that the left controls the mainstream narrative is bad for itself, because it puts the right on the "rebel" "underground" place.
Maybe those politicians have no choice, because a true honest discussion would reveal their ideas are empty. And even if they are not, that is the impression they are giving to most people.
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Zanthius
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According to the diagram I made a few months ago, immigration regulations should actually be considered left-wing, since it is a form of regulations. The most universally accepted interpretation of left-wing vs right-wing, is that left-wing wants to have more regulations, while right-wing wants to have less regulations.
Anyhow. Why can't you just say that you think it is a bad idea for all people to believe in censorship of opinions, no matter if they are left-wing or right-wing?
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Sargon
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By the way, there is always the claim that "Religion is dangerous, it brings violence, it's bad..."
Well the last shooter in the US was a left wing atheist.
So include Atheism into the dangerous ideologies.
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Sargon
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Sure, but you talked about toxic ideologies.
There is no specific toxic ideology in the West.
And even if you talk to radical Muslims or Nazis they will try to rationalize how they are not racist or hate women.
That's why I think it's wrong to target certain ideologies and attack people for those.
It's like there is almost 0% chance for you to find someone on trial who is 100% honest and admits that he have done something wrong and he should get the full punishment he deserves.
And you are correct. People can be racist or backwater inside their head, but only if they act upon it, it's what makes the difference.
I don't see how you can categorize ideas as toxic, I think it's really the individual who is toxic, rarely the ideas themselves.
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Sargon
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"Easily verifiable", I don't think most important things are easily verifiable.
You wouldn't listen that the dangerous terror funding opposition in Saudia Arabia actually donated millions to Obama?
The rigging of the DNC primaries is "shurgged off" as a non issue, and that Bernie took the money eventhough he knew it was rigged.
The left winger fail to accept there are bad things going on on their side. They tend to shrug it off as unimportant, although many of the things left wing politicians od will get the average joe a lifeterm in prison.
Also the "Seth rich assasination" conspiracy theory might actually be true.
How can you trust everything said in the media when they have been caught up lying many times and the numbers just don't add up?
But some people swear everything in the MSM is the moderate common sense "verifiable" truth, yet any talk about corruption by Hillary and Obama is just lies and impossible.
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Sargon, the nature of politics is such that the people who abuse the system the most get the most power. So that's why it's not surprising that poiticians do more corrupt things than average joe.
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