You are in a queer friendly community talking about "... recognize both sides are equally problematic for their extreme views ..." That is incorrect. The most leftists are not pushing or perpetrating the genocide (or removal, or subjugation) of my people (the queer, disabled, and other social minorities). I know from experience the same is not true of the right. Just like the OP and like many of the comments, I do not tolerate "both-sidesism" because it is not an equal scale. The right creates a platform built regressionist practices. I think some leftists are annoying, but at least they aren't trying to kill me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"equally problematic for their extreme views" means you look at all the extreme views of each side and compare how problematic they are. Genocide on social minorities is an extreme view. Accepting social minorities for what they are is not an extreme view, so these two things cannot be compared in this equation.

The genocide of social minortities thing from "the right" could maybe be compared to the excusing and denying of Chinese genocide from "the left".

In this case, both are problematic, but the right side thing has a personal impact for you, so it weighs heavier for you. Someone with a Taiwanese background may find the other side's problem to weigh heavier.

It s not a very good measure to base your political beliefs upon, but it's rather a measure to support the centrist view and illustrate that extremism happens on both sides.

Finally, political views are a spectrum. There is no true left or right or liberal or conservative, or rather there is, but there shouldn't be. The left/right debate only polarizes society. I think most centrists are against that polarisation and think that the centrist view could be a way to bridge the gap and find a way to reunite society.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I see the common mistake of associating the left with authoritarianism.

China and such are not left. They're even further right to the point of fascism labeled communism.

Remebere communism/socialism is about the workers relation to the means of production. Chinese people do not own the factories they work on, so I'm not sure you can call them left.