QAnon representatives are calling for the murder of Democrats. The same group advocates for brutal treatment of migrants, restrictions of freedom of choice for women, direct violence against muslims.
I don't see any of this on the left side of the political spectrum. Also, when someone in a group voices radical opinions and calls for violence it represents the groups view when said group is not distancing itself from these views. Because if the group doesn't, the one person is just the group trying to find out how far they can go.
> when someone in a group voices radical opinions and calls for violence it represents the groups view when said group is not distancing itself from these views
When "the other side" has an interest in associating you with extremists and refuses to listen to you repeatedly denounce the actions of those extremists, there's nothing you can do to convince them otherwise. Again, the demagoguery and parallels to the McCarthy era are troubling.
So, like, when someone tweets "kill all men", no one on the left says: relax, it was obviously just a joke!
Also, Valerie Solanas and Donna Hylton never existed, or at least were never considered heroes by the left.
I sincerely don't think either of the two sides is advocating for those things (ignoring a very few extremists - on both sides - with malicious intent, who don't represent the majority).
I do see those issues mentioned a lot in the public debate, but mostly in the context of straw man arguments repeated as a sort of battle cry, and to denigrate "the other side".
It was a whole lot easier to push McCarthyism than it ever was to convincingly prove you weren't a communist.