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Masculine Policy: The GOP’s Plan To Outlaw ‘Porn’ And Suspend The First Amendment
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Normal people get attacked by both sides until they learn to be quiet.
The far-left purity test alienates many mostly-left people.
You can be pro-choice, pro-women, all for supporting the poor, gay rights and trans rights - but if you dare suggest that maybe trans women shouldn’t be competing against born women in top-level sports, then the vocal left brand you as a transphobic TERF whose opinion isn’t even worth listening to. They would rather fight you over the 2% of things you disagree on, than embrace you for the 98% of values you have in common.
The vocal left want diversity in color, gender and sexuality - but they will not tolerate any diversity in thought or opinion.
Indeed, this is the major problem on the left. It's why there's so much interest online in centrist "anti-woke" discussions and podcasts. But it's also fertile recruiting ground for the far right - if you're excommunicated for the 2% difference and actually, effectively canceled (I mean like a twitter mob actually gets you fired or the like), you're more inclined to go where people support you, and all too often, that's now the far right.
Identitarinasm doesn't lead anywhere good IMO on either side, and we would do well to re-think that on the "loud" part of the left.