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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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I call outlet wrong when I see it no matter which "side" it's on. And I do agree at least in part, with you views on confirmation bias, but I would add tgat it is often a double edged sword. Not only does it prevent people from calling out wrongs on their own side, it can often blind people for seeing those on the opposite side policing their own.

You mentioned two examples of horrible/racist posts that were hearted and unchecked. First of all, you have no way of knowing whether the hearts came from people on one side or the other. I hate to break it to people but racism and islamaphobia exists on both sides and is far from a right wing or left wing issue.

Secondly, I have seen dozens of posts over the years wher3 people have been called out by people they considered allies. So it does happen.