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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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

I have before occasionally when I find something. Veganism is closer to the left (my side of the left) and I tend to criticize them when I see something that bothers me. I get their ethical arguments but some things they say are true, others are half true and some are just outright false and deceiving people.

I haven't really been watching anything I disagree with the left on as I mostly watch seminars now and the like rather than protests and other things that are only for dramatic flair (like I used to when I was first on here.)

Those things are tricky to call out because video only tells half the story. There's sometimes you can make up your mind and then other times it's found out that it was only half of what I saw so I feel like I can't trust myself to know what's going on enough to criticize anyone.

Take the MAGA pro lifer boys and that one Native American, far righters say that the MAGA boys were completely innocent and I have to admit, I was taken aback for quite awhile on that one. Then I saw another video that surfaced when a MAGA boy told a girl when discussing something about their pro life stance (I assume) "It's not rape if you enjoy it!"

They were also screaming at girls and just being rude.

The things is the media does a great job at portraying them as victims but other video evidence including what they were there for (pro life) shows they were there for an agenda, like everyone else.

So that's one case of where it gets tricky on video 🤷‍♀️