Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals
HubertManne@kbin.social 4 months ago
I mean plenty of lefty folks hate righties but they hate the ideology and not the people. They hate the people in so much as they hate the ideology they spout and its hate. There is a lot of hate inherent to right ideology but not so much in left ideology. At the end of the day I don't hate any particular person just them pushing things on me or the world that makes either worse. Take the old order anabaptist types like the amish. They are ultra conservative but keep to themselves. Is there bad things in the way their communities run. You betcha. But anyone can leave and sure they will be shunned but otherwise if they accept just not being part of it then they are free of it all. I am sorta losing where I am going with this but hope it helps in some way.
sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
All extremism leads to hate, whether left, right, or center. They just hate different people. It goes without saying that there is plenty of hate on the right. But, historically, the “left” has included The Terror period of the French Revolution, the Cultural Revolution under Mao, the purging of the bourgeoisie during the Bolshevic Revolution, and the vast pogroms and genocidal famine in Ukraine under Stalin. Being on the left of the political spectrum does not immunize a person against hate.
HubertManne@kbin.social 4 months ago
yeah I was generally talking about us current left and right and not the super extremes. thing is our left as a whole is close to center and our right is wwwwwaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy right. currently.
sailingbythelee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s true. The current Democratic party is the “establishment” now, and the Repubs have gone far right.