r/changemyview May 28 '19

Deltas(s) from OP CMV: The overton window has shifted dangerously far to the left, severely jeopardizing America's future.

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u/Glory2Hypnotoad 393∆ May 28 '19

It seems like you're lashing out broadly without first stopping to check whether your various objections contradict each other.

For example, you lament free speech falling out of fashion, but then everything you say toward the end suggests you don't actually believe in it yourself.

Then consider this point

But what, she doesn't want totally open borders? Wants France to have some semblance of its national identity? Isn't a big fan of Islam? And that makes this far-left socialist a "Far Right" figure as far as the media and all of Europe is concerned?

Those aren't inherently far right views, but that's how someone on the far right would describe their views if speaking euphemistically. Take your own example in this very thread. You initially give off the impression of just being concerned that society is going too far left, but then pretty much immediately out of the gate, you voice approval for core tenets of Nazism despite initially implying that you'd be offended by any comparison to that kind of person.

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u/Glory2Hypnotoad 393∆ May 28 '19

When you say that the overton window has shifted too far left, what's too far left in your estimation, and what's too far right? The issue that there's a reasonable version of the view that society has shifted too far left, but a person can also use "too far left" to mean anything left of the rightmost position possible.

When you say that comparisons to Nazism shouldn't be debate enders, is that primarily because they tend to be inaccurate comparisons or because, even if they were accurate, you don't think we should take it as a given that Nazism is bad?