You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the Left - read OP

This thread has turned into something farcical alright, when you have posters pulling the guts out of themselves and crying into their cornflakes because a guy in a silly looking frock might read a couple of stories to kids, meanwhile suspected neo nazis shoot up a load of people in Belgrade and Texas.

But, yeah, the dAnGeRs aRe CoMiNg frOm dE lEfT. 🙄

I was trying to figure out how you could support "old lefty's" but stop at the progressive left. And it's a simple case of pulling the ladder up after you. Makes sense now.

It would be a fine thing to be able to send that poster back to the 1950's/60's so they could get a bit of an education as to what it was like to be gay back then. It would certainly open their eyes. Or better yet, maybe back a little further when things were even more difficult than they were in the mid 20th Century.

It has to be one of the most perplexing state of minds I have come across in some time, though. A gay right winger. It's difficult to know of a more fucked up state of mind TBH.

A truly bizzaroworld situation.

I have no idea who any of these are, links would have been helpful.

If they were all found guilty, damn them all.

What is your opinion on the Tories in the UK restricting the right to protest? I would call the Tories centre right but it seems that the government and police in the UK can now decide if a protest is too disruptive and must be stopped as we have seen with the anti-monarchist movement at the weekend. Is this not an attack on Free speech?

I'd say the biggest showing of cancel culture this year has been the right wing rednecks shooting their cans of bud light.

I'd say the biggest pulling the rug under would be gay people who have achieved equality now ignoring their trans comrades who fought side by side with gay people historically to get equal rights.

I'd say destroying a woman's right to choose trumps destroying women's sport. There's also absolutely no proof that trans individuals are destroying women's sport, which I believe (in the case of football definitely) has never been more popular.

I think banning book and restricting freedom of speech is far more on the right wing side. Look at the Tory party and the new laws on protesting in the UK, for example. Hate speech laws protect minorities, so I can see why you would have a problem with that.

The biological science is a hilarious one, because week by week the evidence is growing that trans people are real.

so that MP you just moaned about an hour ago she wasn’t canceled she was safeguarded against. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This hasn't stopped you from jumping on my own threads I'm the OP of to accuse me of ignoring this or that whataboutism because I happened to create a thread on focusing on something that was not said whataboutisms? You even went out of your way to allege I was "the far left."

Which applied to this would make you a liar, because for my part, being someone accused of being the far left by you, why would I create a thread about a trans shooter? Is that not acknowledging far-left extremism? Square that for me pls.

Choosing which US massacres to be outraged about:

Actually you didn't condem what the poster you quoted said. Instead you closed your eyes and held your nose to say nothing to see here as I don't want to talk about it.

It's just pathetic rapidash/Eskimo and shows you don't really give a damn as long as your giving it to the otherside

Who says this thread should only look at the left. Would you not agree that if someone wanted to show its not just the left that it should be a legitimate subject matter

Who the hell knows? It would be impossible to answer where the border should begin and yes, there can be distinctions about how deep someone's support should or could be. That's true of everyone's politics. I myself believe that there's a discussion to be had around trans women being involved in women's events and it's not as black and white as some would have you believe. There is definitely a debate to be had on the subject, and that debate is still very much ongoing. In fact, it's still in its infancy if anything.

But I cannot sit here and pretend that someone who's daily anti-trans hobbyhorse that is available for all to see possesses any kind of nuance on the matter. There are posters on here which have an abundance of words written in the most vehement manner against the very notion of it, never mind its reality.

And I'll circle back to what I said earlier, that we have posters here that are screaming bloody murder because some guy in a dress and ludicrous Ugly Sister makeup might read a story to kids, which is shown as...somehow...being a "danger". Sorry, but there's absolutely no grey area there.

It's an outlier in the context of saying all the dangers in the world are coming from the right because that would mean that the behaviour of that one person is a commonly occurring behaviour amongst everyone on the right.

We all know that isn't the case and it's preposterous to argue as much just as it is when it's apllied to the left in such a sweeping manner.

We had a feedback thread about CA recently and one major gripe from the left (the OP wanted all non left wing opinions to be banned it seemed) was that outlier cases were being presented as typical of certain groups on the left, which I don't believe was ever the context in which cases were posted or discussed but the OP felt that anything that portrayed issues or groups they were aligned with in a negative light weren't fair game for discussion.

So we have one proposed standard for stories that reflect poorly on the left and a different standard for stories that reflect poorly on the right.

My understanding is that anything that could paint the right in a poor light should be sensationalised as much as possible and anything reflecting poorly on the left should be subject to bans? Am I keeping up?

I'm assuming you don't see any double standard at all and you likely feel I'm being unreasonable saying this.

I believe it occurs MORE OFTEN on the right, therefore I cannot see that you can call it an outlier case.

I don't know what burden of proof you need, but just from looking at Trump and his circle, many, many more of them have been arrested and charged with breaking the law compared to the equivalent on the left. Which metric would you choose to use?

This is a thread called, "You've been looking in the wrong direction, the dangers are coming from the left" and I believe that that is categorically false. It implies that the major danger comes from left wing politics, but that doesn't hold up to any evidence.

That's exactly what the far left think, too.

See the resemblance between ypu and them now?