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This weekly thread will focus on Political Purity Testing. The definition we will use for this discussion is here along with some real-world examples.

The attitude can essentially be summed up with “If you’re not 100% with us, then you’re against us.”

Some Starters (and don’t feel you have to speak on all or any of them if you don’t care to):

  • Do you feel it is helpful or harmful to a side of an issue to purity test?
  • Do you feel these tests are encountered more as you enter extreme areas of thought?
  • Are there alternatives to purity testing that you’d rather see implemented?
  • Do you feel this happens more on the left or right wing, or is it roughly equal?
  • Here’s a goofy quiz about which Canadian Political Party you most agree with. Take it and let us know the results if you feel like it! https://canada.isidewith.com/political-quiz
  • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    To an extent gatekeeping is a good and necessary thing, but purity testing goes well beyond that in a space where making deals with others is actually important. So i don’t really find it useful, no.

    Even the most insufferable and self absorbed left winger has an ideology, which enables purity testing. The modern conservative, however, is defined almost entirely by who they reactionarily oppose this week rather than any thought out ideology, making it much more difficult to purity test. There is a reason it’s a spectacle when the right fracture!