@MA - Well, it's certainly hypocritical and bigoted, but in terms of proportion, it's not even close to
what has been going on at breitbart and the alt-right sphere in general.
It is also
faulty logic to use individual examples to explain entire groups. In particular, it's hypocritical to make such conclusions ("shots fired") about Their-Side if the same standard is not applied to Our-Side. That includes holding Their-Side to Their-Standards insofar Our-Side constantly violates Their-Standards as well(**) --- which is exactly what's going on in this case. Indeed, consider that this would not be of interest/most talked about news in this hour of time, if it wasn't so unusual seeing this on the left.
Matthew 7:1-5 wrote:
1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
(That's me quoting the bible. A rare sight.)
Most recently there was a discussion about the left becoming more violent. Indeed, violence from people associated with the left is increasing---but it's increasing from practically zero(*). In terms of sheer quantity and "quality" (murders vs harassment), what's coming from people associated with the [alt-]left pales in comparison to
what's coming from people associated with the [alt-]right.
(*) The extremist left was very politically violent in the 1970s, but since then political violence has been overwhelmingly associated with the extremist right.
As far as twitter (and facebook and youtube) go, quantitatively, it's mostly the right that's getting cracked down on because of the quantity of violations. Many of those may very well just be bots retweeting each other.
I realize that people mostly live in news filter-bubbles and echo-chambers and that algorithms and news-curating makes this hard to avoid. However, I would recommend adopting a statistical approach (so don't find an example of a single person ... it's actually against the lynch mob forum rules anyway) and look for counterparts on Our-Side who do the same thing.
This means verify that one does not live in a house of glass before throwing rocks. Or at least post in a neutral fashion. Here, it would mean starting from the point that racism is an independent variable (generally associated with authoritarianism on the political compass) and thus one finds it on both the authoritarian-left and the authoritarian-right. Next, look into the prevalence of the A-factor on both sides (clearly leans right currently) ... which prob explains the larger number of racists on the right. This does not means that the right causes racism. It's "merely" correlated. However, if one finds oneself well-correlated, it seems better to attempt to clean one's own house before focusing on other houses.
(**) This pertains to how you deal with an opponent who fights dirty. Should you fight dirty yourself? What do you do once the opponent calls you out for fighting dirty? I think "you started it" trumps "you're a hypocrite".
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