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My ONLY problem with the left is they preach tolerance but are ALWAYS the ones to start the abuse, insults, name calling and threats when they are disagreed with.

On a place light Reddit most subs will just ban you for showing any right leaning opinions. Or any opinion that goes against their narrative. That’s not what tolerance is.

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DimlyLitFlutteringMoth@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That is because “the left” might have a few members that just so happen to be better read and have considered some of Popper’s writings.

On such a note, I presume these right-leaning opinions aren’t about the virtues of conservative fiscal policy?

There are many right wing views, views that are now sadly becoming more and more mainstream, that should not be tolerated. If right wingers had faced actual consequences when espousing their hatred of minorities, we might not be looking at a US government that wants to cozy up to Putin and distance their long term allies while stripping away the rights of US citizens.

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- commander@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Should people be allowed to say they don’t think trans women are they same as normal women?
  
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  - ubergeek@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Depends.
    
    On your property, using your voice? Sure.
    
    At 2:30am, you yelling it 20ft from your neighbor’s house? Probably nor, mainly as it disturbs other people’s normal use of their home.
    
    On someone else’s property? Depends on if they allow it.
    
    In public, in the commons? Sure, as long as people are allowed to ignore you.
    
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    commander@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    What about on an internet forum?
    
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ArchRecord@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
they preach tolerance but are ALWAYS the ones to start the abuse, insults, name calling and threats when they are disagreed with.

First off, the group that I’ve always experienced starting with outright hate and name calling has been the right. Look at two protests, one by leftists, one by the right wing, on the same issue, and you will almost always find the most aggressive, slur using, name calling people on the right making themselves known far before anyone on the left will actually start doing anything even remotely similar.

And secondly, tolerance doesn’t work when dealing with the intolerant. Consider this: Hitler is a brand new figure, comes into the public square, and starts preaching his views. Do we tolerate him, or do we not tolerate him? We should tolerate him, because after all, tolerance is good, right? Well, of course not, because his ideology is intolerant, and directly attacks the tolerant, extinguishing them from society.

The only way you maintain tolerance is by being intolerant of intolerance.

If a conservative states that trans people shouldn’t be allowed to exist in public spaces, and the left shuns that person and ostracizes them, the left is being intolerant, but so is the conservative, who if they had their way, would have then eliminated far more presumably tolerant trans people from public life, if given the chance.

However, conservatives will then frame this as the left being intolerant, and act as if it’s some kind of hypocrisy to try and preserve tolerance by being intolerant of intolerant ideologies.

On a place light Reddit most subs will just ban you for showing any right leaning opinions.

Because many subs have moderators that respect marginalized groups that are often the ones attacked by conservatives.

If someone comes into your community, and begins spouting off an ideology that’s explicitly harmful to members of that group, the most tolerant thing a moderator can do when given two choices:

Tolerate the conservative and let them spout hate

Don’t tolerate the conservative and prevent them from spouting hate

is the second, because otherwise your community is now persistently allowing in someone who is intolerant of the others in the community.
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- Stormy1701@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It is the left that starts the abuse.
  
  If I were to say “there are two genders (male and female) and you can not change what you were born as” the red mist descends and because my views don’t align I get called a phobe or ist or a bigot. They simply can’t accept that not everyone shares their ideology.
  
  As for the right starting the abuse just look at the Reform member conference in Cornwall last week.
  
  It wasn’t the right wearing masks to hide their faces and physically trying to stop people entering while threatening and verbally abusing them.
  
  With two-tier Kiers thought police WATCHING from the sidelines.
  
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  - ArchRecord@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    If I were to say “there are two genders (male and female) and you can not change what you were born as” the red mist descends and because my views don’t align I get called a phobe or ist or a bigot. They simply can’t accept that not everyone shares their ideology.
    
    Because that statement is not just fundamentally wrong, (male and female aren’t genders, they’re sexes, even sex is a spectrum of characteristics that can’t be cleanly defined in 100% of cases, so a blanket statement that only 1 and 2 exist when 3, 4, 5, etc do as well fundamentally fails even when it comes to sex, let alone social identity characteristics and expression) but it is used to justify erasing trans people from existence, and is the core statement that allows for anti-trans policies to exist.
    
    That statement is directly used to justify and further policies that directly harm trans people, and thus it isn’t just a difference in opinion, but a clear and obvious case of intolerance that we know leads to real harm.
    
    If you’d like any further explanation of why exactly that statement is incorrect, I’d be happy to provide it.
    
    As for the right starting the abuse just look at the Reform member conference in Cornwall last week.
    
    Apologies, but considering I’m American, I don’t have much of a personal social context for the events, so do take my opinions here with the understanding I don’t follow UK politics much. I agree that any violence there was likely extreme, at least based on my very limited understanding of the party’s politics, but that is, of course, what seems to be an isolated incident.
    
    As I don’t think we share as much direct societal context, I’m fine with dropping this point against your argument if you don’t wish to continue it, especially considering it’s a little subjective in terms of, say, statistically determining which group is more likely to be aggressive, since I haven’t seen many actual studies or meta-analyses on that particular topic in specific.
    
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    Stormy1701@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Sorry but your gender argument is plain false.
    
    There are two biological genders. Male and female. Anything else is a birth defect and it is biologically impossible to change what you are.
    
    Just because a person thinks they aren’t the gender they were born as does not make them some third gender. It is a mental health issue.
    
    Sex and gender are fundamentally the same thing but the definitions have been twisted to suit a specific ideology which has no basis in fact.
    
    You are of course free to believe anything you wish. If a person wants to believe there are 100+ genders then they have that right, But what nobody has the right to do is expect and demand that others fall into line with their ideology and beliefs. And they absolutely do not have the right to start throwing abuse and words like transphobe around simply because beliefs don’t match.
    
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