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Do you ever call-out your own side?

I know that the idea of having a 'side' is sometimes nebulous but we all have people here who we agree with on political issues in many ways though not completely. We all have identity and confirmation bias and its hard sometimes to be objective. Well, it's impossible to be truly objective but I think its good to try.

On here I have not really noticed right-wing people do that. I saw a post yesterday which called the terrorist act in Christchurch an act of self-defence. It got a heart and no push-back from anyone. I also remember a post telling a black man to stay on the plantation and it got four hearts and again no Conservative pushback. I haven't seen any far-gone things from the left which passes without being challenged but maybe that is my own confirmation bias and perhaps there are examples.

We live in partisan times and the temptation is to be tribal but I think we lose a lot if we can't call out people whom we ideologically agree with for overstepping the mark. It's good to think for yourselves too, or you might end up in a political movement which supports violence against Muslims or open racism. I don't think most Conservatives do agree with these things but I think people should say so.
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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
Yes, for rampant fence-sitting.

But I definitely shit on the left and right more.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@QuixoticSoul On SW, you do seem to support the left in practice. You heart my posts anyway.
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Burnley123 That’s mostly because things are so unbalanced here - I spend the rest of my Internet time mocking tankies and chapocels on reddit 😂. I come here because reddit conservatives aren’t even trying to peek out of their safe spaces where any dissent is banned on sight.

I’m a digusting centrist tbh, under normal circumstances both right and left hate my positions in almost equal measure. But in the Trump era, I start to look left to the faithful.

And I’m a natural contrarian, if SW was lefty-dominated, I’d pitch in more on the other side.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@QuixoticSoul I disagree with you. 😜