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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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ZonkeyBalls · 46-50, M
My so-called "side" is always debatable. I don't see it as any kind of unchallenged truth or anything obvious, I'm a human and to err is to be human. I know, that most people here are Americans and then we have a weird mix of Aussies/Canadians/Brits... So basically people like myself and our resident dentist from Bulgaria are quite an oddity in the mix.

I don't really know, what to think about this post. Lots of stuff, that come naturally to people over this side of the pond. Sometimes, I think, certain people are just too full of themselves to understand the reality as it is. Then again, what do I know? I'm just a Finn trying to say, it's not about the length of the post, if we already know all the stuff, but merely are ignoring it. I'm 50/60, if I should love this post or not, since... Well... Some of us actually do live in civilized world.