[TheGirondin]

>I think this is actually totalitarian left

You're absolutely right. There is only one side organizing at grassroots level (indicating that these are not isolated occurrences, but rather are coming from the groups shared ideals) across the country to shut down the political speech of the other, violently in many cases, and that is the left.

[WaxProlix]

Sure thing buddy.

http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/05/15/white-supremacist-ric...

[TheGirondin]

Thanks for posting, as this one event by the far, far right with a couple dozen people stands in sharp contrast to dozens and dozens of examples involving as many as hundreds of people from the left, and really shows how unequatable they are.

[knowaveragejoe]

This is just the most high profile example in recent memory.

[TheGirondin]

Which doesn't change the reality of what I've said.

I even linked to an left-wing incident that happened over the weekend, with an order of magnitude more people.

http://college.usatoday.com/2017/05/30/protests-erupt-over-r...

[knowaveragejoe]

Sorry, I was wrong. The stabbing on the bus in Oregon is probably the most high profile example of a xenophobia-motivated killing:

http://ktla.com/2017/05/30/portland-man-accused-of-stabbing-...

[metaphorm]

censorship is favored by any kind of authoritarian extremist group and is independent of left/right (which I perceive as an increasingly meaningless distinction).

organized censorship is practiced, historically, by organizations as diverse as the Ayatollah of Iran, the Chinese Communist Party, the NAZI party, and by some microscopic evangelical Church in Arkansas that you've never heard of. Now a certain kind of deranged college professor (and the students they influence) are doing it too.

So what is the left and what is the right? the categories we're accustomed to reading about have broken down. it's something else now and its time to acknowledge it.