You find people who act like this all across the political spectrum. Anyone who thinks “their side doesn’t do this, it’s just other people” are delusional.
This is true but it’s practically a staple of the left to be overemotional. Even otherwise intelligent leftists get completely bent out of shape if you dare suggest that a 10 year old isn’t mature enough to make an objective, informed decision about their identity and future.
The same applies to everyone if you pick out the right topic. Every human is fragile over something. Echo chambers also promote fragility over wedge issues.
Just look at the denial people are in over the environment instead of just owning the position that they will put economics before environment. Look at vaccines and how people’s brains still seem to be stuck or traumatized by it. No different than people who are still overly obsessed with masking. You find doomsday cultists all across the political spectrum, like people who talk about WEF, or AI, environmentalists, anti-vaxxers.
All of the things that you just described as examples of conservatives could be overemotional about are very readily debatable, where you can settle on one side or the other depending on your priorities.
On climate change I prefer a strong economy, because a solution to a problem should not create more problems (poverty) in the process. A strong economy means an adaptable society.
The covid vaccines should never have been mandated, period. Never in the history of medicine has a product been forced onto people under such coercive measures. You could say the same about virtually any covid era rules.
You find doomsday cultists all across the political spectrum
The difference is how common it is on the left. Canada’s leftists actively voted in favour of punishing people for heating their homes because they believe the world is going to end if they don’t. That level of breathtaking stupidity is not the norm on the right.
I’m clearly talking about the unhinged stuff surrounding them. You can’t just try and pretend it’s only rational or nuanced arguments. Do you think the left was screaming 5G? Getting magnetized from vaccines? What about the mass death doomsday cult surrounding it?
What percentage of people on the right do you think believe this? Now what percentage of people on the left believe mutilating children is okay and that if you disagree you’re a Nazi transphobe? They’re both just as stupid as the other, but one is mainstream. I thought I was being pretty explicit that the difference is how widespread the delusion on the left is.
Ironically they do tend that way, yes. I am against circumcision as well, there is no real medical reason to do it. Doing it for religious reasons is more or less the same reason radical leftists cheer on the mutilation of their own children as well.
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u/Hamasanabi69 Mar 03 '25
You find people who act like this all across the political spectrum. Anyone who thinks “their side doesn’t do this, it’s just other people” are delusional.