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Bias alert. The extreme Right is described as "strident, [with] uncompromising views." and the extreme Left is described as "highly sensitive to issues of fairness and equity, particularly with regards to race, gender and other minority group identities.”

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I wonder what "true neutral" would look like for describing these groups. And who would actually write in a fashion everyone would agree is neutral.

I think something like: "there's very fine people on both sides, but extremists on both sides"

What's interesting to me is you could smoosh those descriptions together and apply the result to both extremes pretty accurately: "strident, [with] uncompromising views... highly sensitive to issues of fairness."

That sounds extremely accurate, and not for the extremes either.

Newt Gingrich & Rush Limbaugh began the mantra of refusing to compromise on any position. They are anything but extreme and are really more the torch bearers. Rush was even awarded a Presidential medal of Freedom.

And sensitivity to issues of fairness is hardly an extreme position. That's probably the most mainstream belief associated with liberalism and just plain being a good human being.

What bias?

Liberalism is not left wing, let alone extreme left. I dont understand your post.

>And sensitivity to issues of fairness is hardly an extreme position.

There are 2 ways to explain this: (1) the extreme left doesn't exist, or (2) the article is downplaying the extreme left.

I suggest that most (edit: not 'most' should have said 'some' or 'much') of the Left's actions are 'strident and uncompromising'.

The term 'White Supremacy' as it is loosely supplied is strident to the point of belligerence.

That said, I think the author roughly captured at least partly the spirit of the division.

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