I am going to be doing a full article on this on my blog, but I thought I'd talk about it here first.
I think its interesting the way the horse shoe effect is actually right, and that a lot of the anti SJWs or skeptics as they call themselves are really no better than the SJWs themselves.
As we all know SJWs have sadly destroyed the credibility of left wing politics. Its a shame as I still support socialist ideas like the NHS and the welfare state and I think a mixed economy is the way to go.
However the "left" these days are deeply bigoted against white men. They come out with bullshit like "white male privilege" and smear all men as potential rapists. Ironically they are no longer focusing on the very thing they should be, class, which in modern society is the biggest divider between people. Instead we are too wrapped up in identity politics bullshit.
So a lot of people are turning to the right who at first glance do seem more logical. They aren't racist (yes the alt right is racist, but they don't represent most of the right.) Added to that they seemingly are against things like censorship, and are willing to call a spade a spade in regards to things like the danger Islam is representing.
However dig a little deeper and you can see that the right really are no better than the left. Its just that they have no power over the media yet. Still I think rather than turn to the left or the right, we should instead adopt more of a centrist position. That stops it descending into the tribal bullshit, that bother sides are guilty of such as the following.
1/ Fidel Castro/ Augusto Pinochet
When the Cuban dictator Castro died, the left lined up to canonise him as a fighter for freedom and justice. Naturally many right wingers like Sargon of Akkad rightfully called them out on their hypocrisy.
Castro was a dictator who killed many innocent people, and was bigoted towards LGBT people in Cuba for years, by his own admission. Yet these same people who love to virtue signal about how much they hate Trump for being supposedly homophobic were praising Castro?
The right took the piss out of the lefties for dismissing all of those killed under Castro as people he had to put down, and for saying well it was worth it because he improved the economy.
Yet hilariously the right do EXACTLY the same thing for Pinochet. Pinochet was a dictator who was even more brutal than Castro. His regime tortured and killed thousands of innocent people in the most horrific ways.
He had women raped by animals, he forced people to sleep with their relatives at gun point, he even forced them to become cannibals! Yet right wingers including that absolute arse Sargon of Akkad dismisses these revolting acts of sadism by saying that he was just getting rid of his "communist problem". Also hilariously like the lefties they ridicule, the right in regards to Pinochet say "well it was okay if he tortured men, women AND children and took away people's democratic rights as he did good for the economy."
The reason that the naive lefties like Jeremy Corbyn and the right wing shit lords like Sargon of Akkad defend these brutal dictators is because socialism and capitalism are their religions. Both ideologies are flawed and can be open to abuse. That's why the best thing to do is take what works from both for certain situations. However these people simply can't hear that their ideologies have any faults so when faced with the reality of someone like Pinochet and Castro who prove that, then they will do all they can to ignore it.
Even if that means betraying things they claim to support normally like democracy.
2/ Soft bigotry of low expectations towards dark skinned people.
We all know how the left has a soft bigotry of low expectations towards dark skinned people in regards to Islam.
Islam is a dangerous ideology. That's not to say that all Muslims are bad people. Some Muslims abandon the bad bits of their faith, others probably haven't even read their own holy book and just take their imams words for it that its a great faith. Similarly I don't think all Jewish people have read the old testament.
However the Quran is an evil book that preaches hatred, xenophobia and psychopathic misogyny. The left however will shut down anyone who says that as a racist, despite Islam not being a race, simply because a lot of Muslims are brown and in these people's minds, brown people can never do anything wrong.
However when you look at the case of Candace Owens you can see how the right sadly talk down to black people too. Candace was a fraud, a liar and had set up a website designed to doxx people including children, yet the likes of PJW promoted and supported her simply because they wanted a tolken black woman on their side to prove that they weren't racist.
It was absolutely cringe inducing.
Also Sargon and others like him always go on about how all communists are bad people, which again I can't see him doing the same for Muslims. Not that I want him too, but still if Sargon is going to tar all communists with the same brush why isn't he going to do the same for Muslim, when according to him he thinks that Islam is an evil ideology? Simple, because he is scared that he would be seen as a racist for that.
3/ They Support Censorship
We all know the crazy feminists who get people fired from their jobs and deplatform people at universities.
However the right IMO have shown that they are not so above it all either. Sargon has said that he wishes McCarthy would come back, whilst various other right wingers have much like with Pinochet tried to actually re evaluate this disgusting man.
McCarthy was the SJW/Me Too Movement of his day. He was a fascist who wanted to shut people down, ruin their lives by making them unemployable, was such a fanatic that anyone who expressed even the slightest left wing views was tarred as a Stalinist, and he whipped up everybody so much that there were basically witch hunts against communists in America.
Its hilarious that someone like Sargon who criticises the Me Too Movement, goes on about how feminists want to silence opinions they don't like supports McCarthy, and it shows how if he was in the same position of power as the SJWs then he would be no better, except rather than accusing people of being "misogynists", it would be communists.
I think its interesting the way the horse shoe effect is actually right, and that a lot of the anti SJWs or skeptics as they call themselves are really no better than the SJWs themselves.
As we all know SJWs have sadly destroyed the credibility of left wing politics. Its a shame as I still support socialist ideas like the NHS and the welfare state and I think a mixed economy is the way to go.
However the "left" these days are deeply bigoted against white men. They come out with bullshit like "white male privilege" and smear all men as potential rapists. Ironically they are no longer focusing on the very thing they should be, class, which in modern society is the biggest divider between people. Instead we are too wrapped up in identity politics bullshit.
So a lot of people are turning to the right who at first glance do seem more logical. They aren't racist (yes the alt right is racist, but they don't represent most of the right.) Added to that they seemingly are against things like censorship, and are willing to call a spade a spade in regards to things like the danger Islam is representing.
However dig a little deeper and you can see that the right really are no better than the left. Its just that they have no power over the media yet. Still I think rather than turn to the left or the right, we should instead adopt more of a centrist position. That stops it descending into the tribal bullshit, that bother sides are guilty of such as the following.
1/ Fidel Castro/ Augusto Pinochet
When the Cuban dictator Castro died, the left lined up to canonise him as a fighter for freedom and justice. Naturally many right wingers like Sargon of Akkad rightfully called them out on their hypocrisy.
Castro was a dictator who killed many innocent people, and was bigoted towards LGBT people in Cuba for years, by his own admission. Yet these same people who love to virtue signal about how much they hate Trump for being supposedly homophobic were praising Castro?
The right took the piss out of the lefties for dismissing all of those killed under Castro as people he had to put down, and for saying well it was worth it because he improved the economy.
Yet hilariously the right do EXACTLY the same thing for Pinochet. Pinochet was a dictator who was even more brutal than Castro. His regime tortured and killed thousands of innocent people in the most horrific ways.
He had women raped by animals, he forced people to sleep with their relatives at gun point, he even forced them to become cannibals! Yet right wingers including that absolute arse Sargon of Akkad dismisses these revolting acts of sadism by saying that he was just getting rid of his "communist problem". Also hilariously like the lefties they ridicule, the right in regards to Pinochet say "well it was okay if he tortured men, women AND children and took away people's democratic rights as he did good for the economy."
The reason that the naive lefties like Jeremy Corbyn and the right wing shit lords like Sargon of Akkad defend these brutal dictators is because socialism and capitalism are their religions. Both ideologies are flawed and can be open to abuse. That's why the best thing to do is take what works from both for certain situations. However these people simply can't hear that their ideologies have any faults so when faced with the reality of someone like Pinochet and Castro who prove that, then they will do all they can to ignore it.
Even if that means betraying things they claim to support normally like democracy.
2/ Soft bigotry of low expectations towards dark skinned people.
We all know how the left has a soft bigotry of low expectations towards dark skinned people in regards to Islam.
Islam is a dangerous ideology. That's not to say that all Muslims are bad people. Some Muslims abandon the bad bits of their faith, others probably haven't even read their own holy book and just take their imams words for it that its a great faith. Similarly I don't think all Jewish people have read the old testament.
However the Quran is an evil book that preaches hatred, xenophobia and psychopathic misogyny. The left however will shut down anyone who says that as a racist, despite Islam not being a race, simply because a lot of Muslims are brown and in these people's minds, brown people can never do anything wrong.
However when you look at the case of Candace Owens you can see how the right sadly talk down to black people too. Candace was a fraud, a liar and had set up a website designed to doxx people including children, yet the likes of PJW promoted and supported her simply because they wanted a tolken black woman on their side to prove that they weren't racist.
It was absolutely cringe inducing.
Also Sargon and others like him always go on about how all communists are bad people, which again I can't see him doing the same for Muslims. Not that I want him too, but still if Sargon is going to tar all communists with the same brush why isn't he going to do the same for Muslim, when according to him he thinks that Islam is an evil ideology? Simple, because he is scared that he would be seen as a racist for that.
3/ They Support Censorship
We all know the crazy feminists who get people fired from their jobs and deplatform people at universities.
However the right IMO have shown that they are not so above it all either. Sargon has said that he wishes McCarthy would come back, whilst various other right wingers have much like with Pinochet tried to actually re evaluate this disgusting man.
McCarthy was the SJW/Me Too Movement of his day. He was a fascist who wanted to shut people down, ruin their lives by making them unemployable, was such a fanatic that anyone who expressed even the slightest left wing views was tarred as a Stalinist, and he whipped up everybody so much that there were basically witch hunts against communists in America.
Its hilarious that someone like Sargon who criticises the Me Too Movement, goes on about how feminists want to silence opinions they don't like supports McCarthy, and it shows how if he was in the same position of power as the SJWs then he would be no better, except rather than accusing people of being "misogynists", it would be communists.