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Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 07, 2024 @08:05PM (#42083064)
> Perhaps not, but this attitude is absolutely endemic on the left.

Oh come off it, you just elected a guy who thought it was good taste to physically mock a disabled journalist for crying out loud. You guys have absolutely no moral high ground to stand on if you are trying to favorably compare "attitudes" with the left.

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency by FredPret on Thursday November 07, 2024 @09:13PM (#42083442)
(I'm not a US voter, but we have the same dynamic up here in Canada)

I think it's absolutely horrendous to:

- make fun of a disabled person

- make fun of someone for having an immigrant surname, though less so

- cancel someone because they don't toe the line exactly on your very detailed and opinionated ideology (reminds me of Christianity a couple of decades ago)

- call someone a Nazi when they aren't one

- call someone a communist when they aren't one

Next, it must be noted that zero percent of Trump's appeal lies in his social sense of kindness. People vote for him for other reasons; certainly not because he's a nice guy. For the left, a social sense of kindness is their entire shtick.

For a long time now, we on the center and on the right felt little kindness or good intentions coming from the left, only authoritarian diktats and an oppressive social pressure to conform-or-fuck-off.

I do hope the decline of both religion and wokeism means we can all be a bit more broadminded and centered from here on out.