Crimson847 wrote:To be fair, as I understand it the argument with respect to Trump is that he only condemned white supremacists directly due to the massive political and media pressure on him to do so. Pressure that doesn't exist for the respondents in an anonymous survey. You could argue that left-wing politicians take certain stances (such as on ANTIFA) for the same alleged reason that Trump eventually condemned white supremacists, and I'm fine with that if it puts an end to the weak and pointless argument that you're criticizing. Arguing that survey respondents are doing the same thing is substantially further than your opponents have gone, however, so the "turnabout is fair play" approach doesn't justify it.
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still trusting polls
In literally the same screenshot that Avi just linked, only 4% support white nationalists and white supremacy, even less than the percent that supports antifa. Furthermore, there's three times more people who disagree with whtie nationalism than disagree with antifa. Assuming (without evidence) that 100% of these people who agree are aligned with the political right, that still makes up a miniscule portion of the right overall. But according to TCS the right is the one thath as an extremism problem.
If you think I'm being unfair, it's only because your own standards are unfair. I'm not going to argue whether or not your standards actually are unfair, but even if they were, you can't fairly apply them.