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So how about the left extremists accounts? Is it double standard?

I mean no, you're not going to get banned for posting support for universal healthcare, ending the drug war, ending for-profit prisons, etc even though these are extreme left positions in current US politics.

If you post misinformation telling people that it's illegal to charge for healthcare and that you can just throw out any medical bills you receive without recourse, or that drug laws are unconstitutional so you can't actually go to jail for them, or that private prisons don't count so you are allowed to break out of them, well yeah you might get banned!

>you're not going to get banned for posting support for universal healthcare, ending the drug war, ending for-profit prisons, etc even though these are extreme left positions in current US politics

Close to 2/3rds of the American public supports universal healthcare and ending the drug war. Therefore they can't by definition be extreme left positions.

"63% of U.S. adults say the government has the responsibility to provide health care coverage for all"

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/29/increasing-...

'65% of voters support ending the “War on Drugs.”'

https://drugpolicy.org/press-release/2021/06/50th-anniversar...

It's not that they are extreme left positions, it's that that other 35% thinks that universal healthcare, or abortion, or whatever === Stalinism and will paint moderate views as if they are extremism when disingenuously asking "why isn't the extreme left content taken down".

"Our extreme positions are just these cherry-picked sunshine and rainbows."

"That's a dishonest framing, given you're neglecting this murderous position, that race essentialism position, and--"

"Sunshine. And. Rainbows. :)"

This is an incredibly dishonest reply. No one thinks those are extreme anymore. Most of those made it to the mainstream democratic platform in the last primaries.

If you can't figure out where the leftist extremism is, you aren't looking hard enough, or you are being willfully ignorant.

The point is that the right likes to paint those positions as dangerous extreme left ideas, and a lot of the time when someone says "but what about the extreme left" they are talking about those, and trying to make the argument that they're not being taken down - so obviously white supremacists and covid conspiracy theorists deserve to be on youtube too.

Close to zero legislators and media outlets at the national level will even tolerate discussions about these items outside of making fun of them.

Those are pretty moderate left positions. If you want extreme left, you need to go out into the wilderness where people want to outright abolish money and overthrow capitalism.

> you need to go out into the wilderness where people want to outright abolish money

That seems more like a libertarian position to me.

Maybe libertarians like the idea, I don't know, but it's one of the core properties of idealized communism. From Wikipedia (emph added):

> Communism ... is a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is ... a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of ... money.

What left extremists accounts?

Because “extreme left” views don’t involve genocide, xenophobia, sexism, etc.

That's debatable.

This is clearly whataboutism though.

Why would it be a double standard for "right wing watch" to not repost left wing content?

(EDIT: For the record I am all for a "left wing watch" that only reposts influencial left-wing's voices that the posters believes violates terms of service on the website they post on. I just don't understand why "right wing watch" should be expected to do so, or why it's a double standard if they don't.)

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