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Originally Posted by lzppjb
This is going to veer terribly off course if I reply with what I really want to say, so I won't.
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Respectfully, were you going to reinforce your equivalency between the so called "alt-left" and the self-annoited "alt-right"? Even if we want to call the tactics of these groups equivalent, which proportionality doesn't even pass the smell test anyway, there is a clear fallacy in equating the premise of these groups. The alt-right, truly a euphemism for if not Nazis then at the very least racists, believes they are the superior race and are being disenfranchised by a burgeoning double standard where minorities are given an accelerated path as a sort of overcorrection to past oppression. Now, I agree that some of this belief may be rooted in the disintegration of jobs, which some may believe is fueled by lesser opportunity for whites. Whether this is through residual affirmative action or immigrants cornering the low-skilled labor market, doesn't really matter since it's not at the absurd scale they contend. But at the end of the day, I think it's really an excuse or internal conflict for why someone who was dealt the right race/gender hand (which is still white male) isn't where they'd like to be. So they construct an illusion of reverse oppression. There is minor credence to their cause, but it's less institutional and more in rhetoric, such as MTV creating a "White people suck video" which is inherently racist and hypocritical. I thought that was an asinine thing to make, so I get the frustration there. But a good lens to view these two groups is to look at their composition. White people and those of many creeds may march with BLM, but there isn't one black person marching with the alt-right. Ask yourself why? The answer is that their premise is entirely different. The left can be comprised of multiple races because they're literally denouncing hatred and racism. The alt-right is really only white people because their message is couched in blanket superiority and disgust for certain groups, namely Jews and black people. This is to say nothing of women, who largely are not in this group either and you can do the math on why. And I'll tell you what the alt-left looked like circa 1944, since after all these groups are merely derivatives. The alt-left were the allies storming the beaches of Normandy. The alt-right were Hitler's Nazi pigs. So go ahead, compare the tactics of the two (weak argument in itself) but don't for a second equivalate the premise.
Again, respectively. Now back to skyscrapers.