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by faichai 1532 days ago
The left has already gone too far, in my view.

From a free speech perspective the right seems to be more pro-principle and less identity-based cancellation hysteria, but they do so on the back of white, Christian nationalism and rampant hypocrisy which is a slightly different problem than heresy as per the original article.

Calling me disingenuous a bit of a reach.

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> white, Christian nationalism

How could this possibly not be seen as identity politics?

...so you agree that the Republican Party has morphed into an outright White, Christian nationalist, identity-based party, but think that identity politics on the left is somehow worse?

I would say "disingenuous" is on point here.

I called the right a bunch of nationalist hypocrites!! I wasn’t trying to be kind to them, I agree they are doing identity politics too.

I am claiming that is the left that more prone to be cancelling people for heresy as per the original article. The right is more pernicious but there issues are different from a free speech/heresy perspective.

It’s OK for me to just use one side to make a point you know. I’m not the BBC.