First, it’s a lazy argument and this particular phrasing is inherently biased. When people talk about the right being the same as the left they usually talk about them being authoritarian. I still think that’s wrong but it makes more sense in a shallow understanding of the of the left (that’s what makes it lazy).
Extremism can only be identified in relation to other things. In order to call either the far left or the far right extreme, they must be compared to what the viewer considers normal. That’s the inherent bias.
The second reason it’s so funny is because of the tendency of centralist or centre left people to accuse leftists of saying the Dems and Republicans are the same thing when they are criticising the Dems. That’s terrible but saying more left wing and right wing ideology is the same is enlightened?
Nope, that’s what the far left think about non-far left people, not what they truly are. In fact, that meme is expressing hate against any non-far left person. You are projecting your own hate in the far right, since far left also wants to “exterminate” the “impures”: I’ve seen far left people in Lemmy celebrating Charlie kirk’s death because, according with them, he was “homophobic” (a.k.a: “impure”). Same with that cartoonist death (I don’t remember his name, he used to draw a popular comic strip about an office guy with glasses), I’ve seen people celebrating his death for similar reasons: his “impuritiy” . How is that different from the far right?
Actually, far-left and far-right are not too different. Both of them are about extremism.
Goddamnit I can’t help myself
This reply is amusing to me for two reasons.
First, it’s a lazy argument and this particular phrasing is inherently biased. When people talk about the right being the same as the left they usually talk about them being authoritarian. I still think that’s wrong but it makes more sense in a shallow understanding of the of the left (that’s what makes it lazy).
Extremism can only be identified in relation to other things. In order to call either the far left or the far right extreme, they must be compared to what the viewer considers normal. That’s the inherent bias.
The second reason it’s so funny is because of the tendency of centralist or centre left people to accuse leftists of saying the Dems and Republicans are the same thing when they are criticising the Dems. That’s terrible but saying more left wing and right wing ideology is the same is enlightened?
Just in case you misread it, I said far-left (not the rational left) and far-right (not the rational right) are too similar.
That is so reductionist, it isn’t just simplified anymore but flat out false.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Scroll down to “academic studies and criticism”.
Nope, but if you are happy thinking that, go ahead, I won’t stop you
You refuse to educate yourself? How unexpected.
I’m very well educated 😇
Nope, that’s what the far left think about non-far left people, not what they truly are. In fact, that meme is expressing hate against any non-far left person. You are projecting your own hate in the far right, since far left also wants to “exterminate” the “impures”: I’ve seen far left people in Lemmy celebrating Charlie kirk’s death because, according with them, he was “homophobic” (a.k.a: “impure”). Same with that cartoonist death (I don’t remember his name, he used to draw a popular comic strip about an office guy with glasses), I’ve seen people celebrating his death for similar reasons: his “impuritiy” . How is that different from the far right?
There infinite more options than those