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Because the left-leaning orthodoxy of the moment is that you should under no circumstances read or watch any conservative media.

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What is conservative media at this point? What even-handed voices are . . . left?

Do you have any evidence the "left wing" is in any more of an echo chamber than the right wing? Is this just personal observation or do you have something more to point to?

You can just read the many, many articles on cancel-culture and de-platforming that have emerged in the last few years which is all a part of the same thing and overwhelmingly a problem from the left.

Presumably the right-wing are just as capable (and historically have been the aggressor often), but the left have mastered it as a form recently.

So, this is a different argument from the one you were making before. You first post is about ingestion of media. This one is about production. This is a very different claim, but still requires evidence beyond stating that there is some. Can you help me out and provide some?

I don't know which post about media ingestion you are referring to, you possibly have me confused with another poster or you'll need to link to it for clarification.

As for providing some evidence of cancel culture and deplatforming, somebody would have to have been living on Mars (or have blinkers) to have missed the odious practices (as evidenced in the OP!) that the terms were invented for, and I'm not sure me spending my time googling and linking examples is going to help in that case.

I think the number of right wing political violence attacks is larger than the number of left wing political violence attacks and political cancelling a combined.

Possibly you missed then the hundreds (thousands?) of antifa/etc riots and violent attacks in the US this year alone?

It’s not any more of an echo chamber, but in my experience it’s easier these days to hold heterodox opinions on the right. (Partly because over the last couple of decades the right has become more heterodox while the left has become more ideologically uniform.)

I guess, but we just had a huge violent assault on the center of US government from the right, attempting to main and threaten to kill members of their own right-wing power circle for not helping too illegally overturn an election.

You're trying to paint half the population based on the reprehensible behavior of a few thousand. Are all Democrats culpable for the Antifa/BLM riots?

That's a thing you can only say if you've never watched a DSA person talk to a non-DSA person.

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