I'm gonna take the lazy route. I don't really want to go watching through a bunch of The Young Turks to pick out specific examples.
And if you had done that you would have been showing clips of the worst the Left has to offer, only proving my point...
I'm kidding of course, but as far as mainstream liberalism goes they really are the worst.
I think you're right when you say it's employed more often by the right. Looking at Ad Fontes Media's media bias chart, there are obviously more unreliable media on the right, and it includes big names like Fox News. Meanwhile, the left-hand-side is full of "literally who?"
That said, I think it's also overly reductive to describe it as a problem that's exclusive to the right. I'd be quicker to describe it as a uniquely American problem, but then other Anglo countries are now starting to follow suit.
I suspect part of our disagreement might be in that we're exposed to different media. I see a lot of Occupy Democrats and the Daily Kos in my social circles, despite the fact that they're relatively small. I'm actually not sure why that is, but it certainly skews my view. My more passionate friends end up reposting shit that combines a photo of Trump with a Hitler quote while decrying right-wingers for being idiots who fall for fake news.
A compromise, how nice. I think we agree more than we disagree on a lot of things tbh. We're not so different, you and I.
I will admit an occasional tendency to the reductive when arguing politics. I don't really see the world as black and white, I only come across that way sometimes.
Picking out the extremism of the Left isn't hard to do when they are the party of rioters, criminals, and deviants who hate America.
Someone else on the Right that regularly uses this tactic, thanks for posting and reminding us Tom.
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