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Originally Posted by Maru

Both sides are often coming from a place of deep resentment, so this is about as balanced as it can get I think...

He refers to the Democrats as "the party of slavery", it's not reeeaaally "as balanced as it gets" is it?

I do still get what he's (half) saying and what you've been getting at too Maru; people should stop pandering to the more extreme aspects of both sides of the debate (I say he half goes there, because he would clearly like to pretend that the extremism and hysterics is only on one side, which is nonsense). We SHOULD stop trying to appease both the "Everyone and everything is offensive and should be banned" side, AND the "pfft nothing is offensive (unless I personally am offended by it) what nonsense PC gone mmmmmeeerrrddd" side.

Where I'm still stuck is in the gulf between "we should" and "how do we". The sad fact is, there are a significant number of people who simply ENJOY tribalism and having "their team", with no significant difference at all between the side other than the content of the ranting.

Its like the football (soccer to our American friends) hooligans who go to games for the fight afterwards... They don't really care about the outcome of the game itself. They're not even really watching it.