This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word

@jensorensen It's hard to emphasize enough how much of the "polarization" is indeed just someone saying "those people should be dead" versus someone else saying "I'd rather not be dead."

But what's really sick is how much this country bends over backwards to give air time to the ones who say "those people should be dead." The person who says "I'd rather not be dead" has to word things very carefully to even be heard. The one who wants them dead gets quoted verbatim.

@jensorensen

When one pole is Nazis, I must insist on polarization.

@jensorensen This certainly explains the alarm bells that go off in my head when I hear people say it.

@jensorensen

Funny how the accommodation in committee is always achieved in one direction

@jensorensen fascism relies on people submitting before they're even asked to

@OvertonDoors @jensorensen I was going to say I wouldn't be surprised if this cartoon goes straight over the heads of 60% of Americans.

@jensorensen
How about people murdering healthcare CEO-s?

@Catriona

Yeah, absolutely this.

I get very annoyed by senior leadership types who use "divisive" to mean "disagreeing with me", ignoring their own instances of genuinely divisive behaviour.

@jensorensen completely disagree. Used polarisation precisely because it’s extremism becoming evident at both ends of the spectrum and mastodons might like to think on that.

@jensorensen @kupac A clear self-defense case.

@jensorensen Question for our hard of hearing comrades: does capitalized alt text sound as yelling in your applications ?