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by wsc981 980 days ago
Hypocrisy can be found in many groups. For example I've seen many leftists that claim to be pro-immigration, protest against asylum centra opening in their wealthy neighbourhoods. Or people that claim to be worried about climate change travel the world and protest against wind turbines near their neighbourhoods.

Hypocrisy is not limited to certain groups, pretty much all people are hypocritical at times.

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Is that protesting immigration processing or immigration detention centres? I can see why a pro-immigration person can be against what looks like a prison going up in a leafy suburb. They may change their mind if what’s going up is simply a document processing centre that people visit when they need to.
You are cherry picking the one (weaker) example by badly interpreting it and trying to extend that to the others.

All groups have hypocrisy where people push for others to aim for lofty goals, but fight tooth and nail to not have their local community pay the costs. Left, right, authoritarians, anarchists, etc.

I didn't provide the example.
Not disagreeing with you.

But you have reminded me to do a self-assessment, find all of the hypocrisy I can, and correct it.