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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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Nope. Conservatives absolutely do that and worse. Their entire history and mentality is based upon persecuting outsiders. Whether it's because someone is gay, different skin color, "socialist", different religion, pro abortion, or anti-guns, this party seeks to kill/ban/bully/harass/dehumanize anything that feels too outside of their bubble. The Dixie Chicks couldn't even briefly criticize one of the worst presidents ever without getting death threats and widespread calls from conservatives to take their music off the air and out of circulation.
Liberals are active at fighting against behavior they consider destructive or unjust, there's a big difference. They are not more inherently prone to "cancelling" people, there's simply a higher amount of notable liberals on social media, in large part because liberal people are more cultured, so when you combine that with their increased understanding and care about social equity, it's logical they are going to be the more dominant force on social media.
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You're just conflating every historical example of bad behavior on the part of conservatives as if it's still widely representative today, and also framing everything bad the left does as actually good, or justified because of happy vague sounding terms like "social equity". It's the age old equality of opportunity VS equality of outcome argument.
This is a big part of my problem with what the left has become in the last 15 years, this self congratulatory assumption that they are the "good guys", and they have some kind of monopoly on what constitutes "justice". Taking money from rich people who haven't done anything wrong to aquire it, for example, is not "just" in many people's minds. Many on the modern left confuse hating the rich for caring about the poor.