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Pure premium gaslighting bullshit. We all know what it looks like when the left is actually upset about something, and what we're seeing ain't it. Get back to me when the 24/7 torrent of calls to violence on Reddit get taken half as seriously as a sticky note with "It's okay to be white" written on it.
I think this is an unreasonable standard. Cleaning house is never going to involve the same enthusiasm as fighting the outgroup, even if it's a sincere effort.
Half? A quarter? For the sake of ten normal people? How low do we have to go, here?
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Hard disagree. Cleaning house with half as much enthusiasm as fighting the outgroup is an eminently reasonable standard for any movement to hold itself to (I'd argue that it's too low by at least 50%, but it's in the right order of magnitude), at least if they want to be considered meaningfully better than the outgroup; it's this very ability to credibly signal that one is cleaning house at least as much as they're cleaning things outside the house that justifies believing that we're better than the outgroup. Otherwise, we're just arguing about how chocolate is just such a better flavor than vanilla.
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If treating the nonstop barrage of really overtly violent rhetoric coming from very mainstream public blue tribe platforms like it's actually a problem you're obligated to address in any way is too much to ask, then at least spare me the farce of rolling up in the first place and asking what I expect the left to do.
I very much did not say that addressing the problem "in any way" is "too much to ask". I was replying to your first comment, where you claimed that because the Left isn't reacting as violently as when they're tilting at racist windmills, they may as well not be doing anything at all. My point is that "address the problem as violently as they address supposed racism" (or even half as violently as that!) is a much higher bar than "address the problem in any way at all", and just because they aren't doing the former, doesn't prove they aren't doing the latter.
But also,
that wasn't actually me. Different users altogether. Check the usernames.
Who the hell cares? They aren't doing shit about the violent rhetoric or trying to calm their base down at all, netstack's comment is fairly ludicrous in that light, and this entire "well ackshually you should expect a level of concern lower than 50 units" is a complete meaningless waste of pixels. Please, don't bother responding, there's nothing else to do here.
Be less antagonistic.
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