Do you view 'social justice warriors' and 'the alt-right' as roughly equivalent in extremism, just on opposite sides?
- No, SJW is more extreme17.6%
- No, altright more extreme40.5%
- Yes41.9%
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I think the real-life impact of the "alt-right" is a lot bigger than that of "social justice warriors". Leaving aside that I can't remember any "social justice warrior"-run massacre but plenty alt-right ones?
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Actually let's not leave that aside: how many people were killed by fanatic SJWs so far? And how many by so-called "lone wolves" who often have high-profile alt-right connections and somehow still keep being disregarded as singular incidents every time?
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"sure, some nazis kill people but let's not forget about the other n-word and how sjws won't let us use it on twitter!"
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Next: "do you think badly behaved yorkshire terriers and white tigers are about equally dangerous as pets?"
And "yes" somehow wins.
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Essentially 59% of your followers (the voters anyway) seem to believe telling people that using certain words makes you an asshole is at least as bad as being a neonazi and associated with actual murders in the name of said ideology. Now this is disturbing.
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Do you actually think my followers think that? I seriously doubt the voters think that those two are the same in badness, have you considered maybe they're thinking of a different thing?
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You are probably correct- there is another way to read this:
"SJWs are at least as big a threat *to me* as the alt-right"
But do you really consider that redeeming? I mean, given how the question is phrased, it just means they consider any threat to themselves bigger than...
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... lethal threads that only apply to someone else.
Even if it's just the threat of being told to not be an asshole.
So sure, let's roll with that one. Or you could offer a better option if you can think of one that works with your question?
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Oh right, third one would be "the alt right will never rule the USA! Trump doesn't count! sjws might actually have an impact!"
Leaving aside how stupid that one sounds, it also requires literally ignoring any alt-right related murder and believing the lone-wolf narrative.
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Would you be open to genuine discourse around why some people view them as equivalent? I'm getting the impression you view anybody who believes this as stupid, so I'm not sure.
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Not necessarily. I also accept selfish.
I would be open to genuine discourse if I could actually expect any new arguments that do not boil down to either "there are no alt-right murders, they're all lone wolves and the movement can't be blamed" or ...
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The discourse is basic as fuck. People are unsettled by deplatforming and what they perceive to be zealotry and threats to freedom of speech and examples of the mental shit you see in student politics, and the left trying to force issues they perceive as unnatural or immoral
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