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I'd not be dismayed to see a bit of violence and chaos from the radical left but I'm struggling to think of examples - do you have some?
BLM, Pro-Palestine, George Floyd... three big ones that come to mind
ROFLMAO. This bloke. Fucking Americans.
I'm not even American
Coulda fooled me since you're spouting conservative American propaganda.
The modern era. It was a bad assumption. People globally spout our propaganda
Okay, what violence did the pro-palestine movement spread, exactly?
I can accept that some buildings got torched and property values temporarily reduced during the George Floyd protests, but when I hear violence, I think harm against flesh and blood, which the police did much, much more of. I can't think of many instances where the protestors did that.
You are gonna have a hard time around this here social media, comrade, with these clown takes...
There are better places for bootlickers out there
Better to be a wolf in a pack of coyotes, than a hare in a foxes stomach.
How many people died in those?
Gotta say, I feel like being opposed to police brutality and a genocide seems kinda... non radical. As in it doesn't seem extreme
The interpretation of whether that was police brutality or not, or a genocide or not are the exact things that are radical.
I mean I won't open that can of worms too much deeper, and I'll let this one lay down to rest
Those just come off as regular left to me.
When I think of radical left I think tanky types who are full on nationalists and pro authoritarian governments that suppress free think that they are indistinguishable from the far right other than just differences when it comes to stuff like government assisted programs.
I wish I could find it, but I can't remember which research paper I came across it for; however there is a routine survey and report that measures how Americans feel about core values over time with no changes in the questions, and what it's shown is that conservatives have moved a little bit more right of centre on most issues, but that liberals have moved almost entirely to the far left.
The thing is, the whole point of liberalism is to consistently move the needle of progress. So it baffles me people fail to realize that today's "normal" leftist ideologies a decade ago were those people you're mentioning. But to someone who is still fighting those ideals and hasn't changed their stance at all, they are still radical ideals.