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Across the Internet, a Game of Whac-a-Mole Is Underway to Root Out Extremism

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Re: Across the Internet, a Game of Whac-a-Mole Is Underway to Root Out Extremism

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Post by emodendroket »

waterheater wrote: post #8

Mirriam-Webster defines "extremism" [1] as "advocacy of extreme measures or views : radicalism" By this definition, extremism and radicalism are equivocated. However, I know many people on the "left" presently identify as radicals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_left ). The article differentiates between the terms "extremism" and "radicalism" by assigning a "political-right" label to "extremists" and a "polit…

I think you have to play pretty fast and loose with the groups involved to come to these conclusions.

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Post by betterunix2 »

spazrunaway wrote: post #5

Extremism is relative. The opinions of an average American in 2008 would be labelled "far-right" today (see: opposition to gay marriage, transgenderism, support for colorblindness, I could go on). Sooner or later, people will see that it's a fool's errand keeping up with this runaway train of an overton window.

The average American in 2008 was not walking into a synagogue and murdering people. Let's not pretend that far-right extremism is something other than what it actually is.

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Post by readflaggedcomm »

betterunix2 wrote: post #12
spazrunaway wrote: post #5

Extremism is relative. The opinions of an average American in 2008 would be labelled "far-right" today (see: opposition to gay marriage, transgenderism, support for colorblindness, I could go on). Sooner or later, people will see that it's a fool's errand keeping up with this runaway train of an overton window.

The average American in 2008 was not walking into a synagogue and murdering people. Let's not pretend that far-right extremism is something other than what it actually is.

But they are now, correct? which Fuentes condoned, I presume.

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Post by emodendroket »

spazrunaway wrote: post #5

Extremism is relative. The opinions of an average American in 2008 would be labelled "far-right" today (see: opposition to gay marriage, transgenderism, support for colorblindness, I could go on). Sooner or later, people will see that it's a fool's errand keeping up with this runaway train of an overton window.

Yeah sure, but is QAnon stuff ever going to be mainstream? Probably not.

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Post by leesalminen »

2lwxxtj wrote: post #14

How is a democracy in which the elite ultimately control which political ideas circulate through the electorate any different from an oligarchy?

It's been like this for a while.

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/fi...

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Post by betterunix2 »

readflaggedcomm wrote: post #13
betterunix2 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The average American in 2008 was not walking into a synagogue and murdering people. Let's not pretend that far-right extremism is something other than what it actually is.

But they are now, correct? which Fuentes condoned, I presume.

The average American is not a terrorist. Extremists are a small (but very dangerous) minority of the country.

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Post by leesalminen »

betterunix2 wrote: post #12
spazrunaway wrote: post #5

Extremism is relative. The opinions of an average American in 2008 would be labelled "far-right" today (see: opposition to gay marriage, transgenderism, support for colorblindness, I could go on). Sooner or later, people will see that it's a fool's errand keeping up with this runaway train of an overton window.

The average American in 2008 was not walking into a synagogue and murdering people. Let's not pretend that far-right extremism is something other than what it actually is.

The average American in 2008 wasn't setting fire to courthouses. Let's not pretend that far-left extremism is something other than what it actually is.

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Post by s9w »

betterunix2 wrote: post #12
spazrunaway wrote: post #5

Extremism is relative. The opinions of an average American in 2008 would be labelled "far-right" today (see: opposition to gay marriage, transgenderism, support for colorblindness, I could go on). Sooner or later, people will see that it's a fool's errand keeping up with this runaway train of an overton window.

The average American in 2008 was not walking into a synagogue and murdering people. Let's not pretend that far-right extremism is something other than what it actually is.

The average American is not walking into a synagogue and murdering people in 2021. The most "far-right extremists" view you could possibly imagine is literally "please let me live and allow me to have children". That's literally the 14 words.
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