This article exemplifies a situation I find so often true when dealing with conservatives. The criticism of left wing extremism is accurate and effective. Yet somehow the author doesn’t seem to notice that right wing extremists fit exactly the same pattern. In fact, it’s hard to even imagine this article applying to right wing radicals. It’s almost as if there is no such thing as right wing radicals. Perhaps, in the mind of the author, there isn’t.
> The neuroscientist-cum-philosopher Sam Harris once remarked that “the true horror of religion” is that it “allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions what only lunatics could believe on their own.” And as Voltaire warned us, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Radical ideology has a similar effect—it inspires and justifies immoral actions.
...As Mark Twain said, “To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” <
And to a right wing radical, all radicals look left wing.
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