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As someone who leans liberal i am constantly depressed from the toxicity of the left making it impossible to have productive and fruitful conversations... they have been so abusive to anyone who isnt on the most extreme left end of the spectrum that everyone has been pushed away to the extreme right.
There is no healthy community left for constructive conversation or criticism on either end.
Inb4: no the republicans arent innocent in this, but lets worry about us.
@freemo yeah the identity-lefty movement that's kind of picking up steam in the last decade or so does not tolerate dissent.
The thinking is roughly: everything anyone does is about identity oppression, so if you disagree with me about anything, you must therefore be an oppressor, i.e. a Nazi. Punch Nazis.
There is no room for nuance.
They have a huge presence on the main Mastodon instances.
I appreciate the enthusiasm, but it really makes it weird when you're debating something banal like minimum wage.
