Just like religious fanatics, is any other radical extreme bad, toxic too?

[Sonyaxoxo]

Just like religious, bible fanatics, are other radical positions just as bad too. For instance if someone goes overboard with the gay rights to the point of knocking on everyone's doors and trying to convince us that it's the norm and something to be proud or. Of if they overdo it with the Black Lives matter and instead of fighting for equality, they want to be treated as a charity and paid more for being a minority; basically similar to Ku Klux Klan but in reverse.

We're already dealing with the genders overgeneralizing each other and acting extremists. The red-pilled men aren't any better than the female extremists either.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Extremist is called that because it’s extreme, meaning it only appeals to a select niche of the population. And that niche can also be very extreme in their liking of this extreme thing. And yeah, if you’re not a part of that niche then their behavior can seem deviant and abrasive. As far as I know, there are no extremes that don’t justify a specific future without the heavy dehumanization of a specific group of people, which is obviously never good as such is the tactic of fascist and heavily communist regimes.

[LeatherDame]

Communism certainly seemed to try to replace a state religion in the Soviet Union with disastrous consequences for Ukraine and anyone who didn’t fall in line with their planned utopia. China was an even more severe version of this with their Great Leap Forward.


Environmentalism these days falls in that bracket too. The belief the world is ending is as old as time even if there are real reasons to be concerned.


Celebrity worship can get pretty up there too.

[KostasKouvalis]

Definitely. My favorite are the environmentalists who blow up Hummers and cause more polution😂

I'm a Conservative, but I think a lot of Conservatives are radical and toxic. They're hypocrites, because they complain that the Left bully people who disagree with them, but just try criticizing the US, Trump, Christianity or God forbid the flag and military people, and see how Conservatives act.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

I'm a Biblical extremist in terms I take God's word seriously and believe it 100%.

Political fanatics are bad. Brainwashed and stupid.

[Anonymous]

The far left have become the equivalent on the other side of the spectrum, and they've done a lot more harm.

[alice55]

Any fanatic / extremist are toxic

[Sonyaxoxo]

Indeed

[Anonymous]

who gets to determine what is radical extremism and what isn't?

[Sonyaxoxo]

Radical extremism is when you're going too far with your ideals and/or beliefs to the point of causing disturbance. Imagine if the elderly got treated overly great that on buses, practically all the seats are reserved for the elderly and now all of us have to stand up. Then they suddenly got paid a lot more just for being older and got more rights than ever to the point they're taking over our own rights.
Or doing a march and delivering hateful speech against the genders. Instead of wanting simple equality, you look for superiority. That's what radical extremism is all about... when it really gets toxic.

[Opinion Owner]

who gets to determine what is too far though?

[Sonyaxoxo]

The majority is the one determining it. Since extremists of only a selective niche, if most don't agree with that extreme views, then it's too much.

[Opinion Owner]

are you sure the majority should be determining it? did you know the majority once agreed slavery was ok? did you know the majority once agreed child marriage was ok? did you know the majority once agreed marital rape was ok? I hope you realize the majority ain't always right and they may be the ones in the extreme

[chilldude33]

That's common sense. Balance in everything.

[noohair]

A fanitic is a fanitic!