Sorry, can you point to examples of what Charlie describes as the far left (AOC, Bernie, Maya Wiley etc) calling for extrajudicial killings of right wingers? I think I have missed those.
I find the question obtuse to the point of being disingenuous. Of course I'm not talking about the US - that's a red herring. I'm talking about the Stalinist purges, the Holodomor, the Maoist purges, and Pol Pot, to name just the best known examples.
It’s not a perfect correlation, more of a trend. I’m very familiar with left leaning people who have policed my speech, by shaming and offering “reeducation”. I was called out for saying “kill two birds with one stone”, because “sometimes what we say influences what we do”. Obviously not the same as extrajudicial killing, but the cure outweighed the “offense”.
GG, I must say that what comes to mind for me are my far left cohorts who thought blowing up ski areas and pounding 60 penny nails into trees (so dangerous for lumberjacks) was a fair defense of the environment.
Tankies (authoritarian left wingers) are not bothered by Russia invaded Ukraine and either support Putin, ot call for 'peace' without demanding Russia withdraw from a country russia uses terrorist tactics on. Tankies are considered by most to be on the far left. For example, Tulsi Gabbard once worked for Bernie Sanders. https://twitter.com/tankiesfortulsi?lang=en
An example of the “horseshoe effect”. The extremes on the continuum become ideological twins.
Sorry, can you point to examples of what Charlie describes as the far left (AOC, Bernie, Maya Wiley etc) calling for extrajudicial killings of right wingers? I think I have missed those.
The conversation started with Communism, a bona fide far left movement, under which millions were murdered extrajudicially.
I find the question obtuse to the point of being disingenuous. Of course I'm not talking about the US - that's a red herring. I'm talking about the Stalinist purges, the Holodomor, the Maoist purges, and Pol Pot, to name just the best known examples.
It’s not a perfect correlation, more of a trend. I’m very familiar with left leaning people who have policed my speech, by shaming and offering “reeducation”. I was called out for saying “kill two birds with one stone”, because “sometimes what we say influences what we do”. Obviously not the same as extrajudicial killing, but the cure outweighed the “offense”.
GG, I must say that what comes to mind for me are my far left cohorts who thought blowing up ski areas and pounding 60 penny nails into trees (so dangerous for lumberjacks) was a fair defense of the environment.
It is a rather large step from policing your speech (which you can often ignore, anyway, TBH--especially if you are not terminally online) and
extra-judicial killing (or even a quick (probably sham) trial followed by a rapid execution w/o appeal.
This is true. And this is what I acknowledged in my remark.
Tankies (authoritarian left wingers) are not bothered by Russia invaded Ukraine and either support Putin, ot call for 'peace' without demanding Russia withdraw from a country russia uses terrorist tactics on. Tankies are considered by most to be on the far left. For example, Tulsi Gabbard once worked for Bernie Sanders. https://twitter.com/tankiesfortulsi?lang=en