We really have to wake up to the facts that one side of politics has not been playing fair for almost three decades...

David Brin's Polemical Judo makes this point too, but the article below is a scary comparison of the smear against Pelosi's #SOTU theatrics with the smear against the Clintons pre-Fox and pre-social media

#alternatefacts
#factcheck
#journalism
#right_extremists
#social_media

https://popular.info/p/ripping-reality-apart

I used to be a „chief text editor” at a leftist weekly newspaper for many years, and this newspaper tried to „We have to *discuss* and *talk* with right wing extremists and nazis“. It *completely* failed.

„What these people need is psycho analysis“, a professional in this field told me today.

#far_right #right_extremists #nazis #instance_blocking #freedom_of_speech #freedom_of_hate_speech