1. Almost every day now, I come across a tweet by someone on the urbanist activist academic left calling me or others a hack, an idiot, stupid, useless, or some other pejorative term. I could go on ...
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2. I know social media has become a tough place, but I don't see this from urbanists on the right or other fields (maybe I am less aware). But I wonder why this is ...?
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I think ideology is driving it (whether they realize it or not, what they mean by "idiot" is "heretic"), and the reason for the asymmetry is that the far left is more ideological than the far right.
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Yep. The self-righteous anger is incredible to see (the sense of being so absolutely right) and even more incredibly troubling, particularly for someone like me who holds progressive political beliefs ...
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just don't cross militant vegans or disability advocates. your death will be called for.
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