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One big difference between the American left and right: Gatekeeping

Matt Walsh's latest movie, "Am I Racist", has brought up in full force something that the American left has been very actively engaging in for over a decade now: Strong gatekeeping of their own members.

In particular, it's the archetypal religious cult tactic of stopping cult members from listening, reading or watching any material that's not approved by the cult, especially material that's critical of the cult. Not only are the cult members forbidden from ever engaging with such material, but they are outright fear-mongered into not doing so. In many cases it's not just "you shouldn't be reading that material", it's outright "you absolutely must not read such material, it's extremely dangerous for you and for the cult, it could literally cost you your salvation."

In most such cults, including the cult of modern far-leftism, this mentality also induces as a side effect a strong mentality of gatekeeping: In other words, cult members watching each other and intervening if one of their own is engaging in the forbidden act.

There are numerous hilariously egregious examples of this, for example in the form of someone who is critical of the far left interviewing far-leftist protesters on the street, and if one of them actually starts speaking with the interviewer, quite often another protester will quickly intervene and tell the first one to stop doing that. "Don't speak to him."

When it comes to Matt Walsh's movie, the amount of gatekeeping by the American far left is through the roof. If anybody on their side even so much as writes a review of the movie, the leftists will immediately pile up in the comment section strongly admonishing that person from having done such a cardinal sin. That person will be considered a traitor and if not outright excommunicated, at least strongly suggested to deserve so.

Not only do they not want to watch the movie, nor anything related to it, they don't want anybody from their own side watching it and writing about it or making videos about it (unless it is a 100% toxic scathing criticism of it. Preferably without having actually watched it, of course.)

Contrast that with how the American right, the American conservatives, deal with eg. movies made by notorious far-leftists. Do they gatekeep each other, watch each other and strongly admonish anybody who watches such a movie and eg. writes a review about it? Are the comment sections of such articles or videos full of conservatives considering that person a traitor and excommunicating him?

I don't think so. I have never seen such a thing. On the contrary, conservatives seem more interested in knowing what the commentator/activist has to say about the movie than trying to stop him from doing so. Even if the conservative political activist in question concedes in some manner some of the points made by the far-leftist movie, it rarely causes a huge outrage in the comment section (especially if the concession is done in a fair and reasonable manner that makes sense even from a conservative point of view.)

It's funny how the American far left sometimes accuses their opposition to be a cult (that worships Donald Trump, of course), yet they don't exhibit many archetypal cult behavior, much unlike the far left.

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