It's interesting to see the term "Alt Left" being bandied around like it's a defined thing.
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Is it? Words like "free media", "democracy promotion" etc. are used without (intended) irony all the time.
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I find the use of terminology in superficial debate interesting; the spontaneous creation of a word to imply equivalence is an illustration.
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In the same way that actual groups are considered to be the "opposite" of your own group and then labeled with anti-versions of your values.
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Eg Capitalists Vs Communists in the Cold War period. A cyclical process of confirmation bias amplifies the differences.
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Clarifying enemy groups and strengthening group coherency are key simian tactics. Debate over "truth" is mostly a shell game.
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It's amazing to me how loaded terms can become; who'd have thought that "Liberals" would be so despised?
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Who wears the clothes is more important than how those clothes look. An actual case of good heuristic pattern-matching.