I mean, that's been obvious for a long time but let's not pretend the Right isn't growing more extreme in response.
10+ years ago you couldn't even talk about Repealing the 19th, now its a popular talking point in some circles and you can joke about it pretty openly with most people on the Right (if women aren't in the room). I talk about it with the fucking normies at my job because of how casual and popular the idea is becoming.
Same with how that long ago most people on the Right still believed you could have blacks and gays around and be fine, no real upset unless it was really over the top or badly done. Now if a black character exists in a game, people might get pissed about it.
On and on, on almost every issue the Right wing general belief is growing further Right too.
This isn't to say this growing extremity is wrong in the slightest, I'd argue its the way it should have always been on a lot of things and a lot of it is in direct response to the Left doing it first. But we are currently in a point of such polarization that we cannot ever hope for peace because a compromise point would be so far Left/Right of each side's belief it would be madness.
I did, but that was shitposting online. People also said nigger constantly in those same conversations, and heck most of the time they didn't even mean it to attack black people but to just generally offend and shock.
Now the word nigger is absolutely using that hard R if someone says it, and I can talk about women voting with a dude I barely know at a social gathering.
I've been a Right wing extremist longer than most people here have been alive. I was in fact saying nigger then without much hate and I say it now with absolute hate in my heart.
I mean, that's been obvious for a long time but let's not pretend the Right isn't growing more extreme in response.
10+ years ago you couldn't even talk about Repealing the 19th, now its a popular talking point in some circles and you can joke about it pretty openly with most people on the Right (if women aren't in the room). I talk about it with the fucking normies at my job because of how casual and popular the idea is becoming.
Same with how that long ago most people on the Right still believed you could have blacks and gays around and be fine, no real upset unless it was really over the top or badly done. Now if a black character exists in a game, people might get pissed about it.
On and on, on almost every issue the Right wing general belief is growing further Right too.
This isn't to say this growing extremity is wrong in the slightest, I'd argue its the way it should have always been on a lot of things and a lot of it is in direct response to the Left doing it first. But we are currently in a point of such polarization that we cannot ever hope for peace because a compromise point would be so far Left/Right of each side's belief it would be madness.
Did you ever play video games back in the day? 20 years ago those things you mentioned were common in voice and text chat.
I don't think the right is becoming more extreme, but reverting to the 'mean'.
Hopefully in both senses.
I did, but that was shitposting online. People also said nigger constantly in those same conversations, and heck most of the time they didn't even mean it to attack black people but to just generally offend and shock.
Now the word nigger is absolutely using that hard R if someone says it, and I can talk about women voting with a dude I barely know at a social gathering.
Were you considered on the right back then? Because that was certainly the impression lefties had of the right twenty years ago.
I've been a Right wing extremist longer than most people here have been alive. I was in fact saying nigger then without much hate and I say it now with absolute hate in my heart.