• knightly the Sneptaur
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    4 months ago

    Extremist rhetoric?

    You’re talking about the bomb threats on schools and the crowds baying for blood at Trump rallies, right?

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      4 months ago

      I’m talking about things like pointing to extreme views and radicals on the other side as though they are examples of the norm, intentionally propagating lies, bad faith arguments etc. The sort of thing that is only about your team winning and the other team losing. Discussing ideas is much more interesting than circle jerking about how evil such and such is or intentionally spreading misinformation because you know it helps your team.

      And yes, your examples would be the same type of thing, though I’d have to take your word for it that they happened that way.