I said they both engage in identity politics, not that they both aim at the same targets or that it would lead to the same outcome. Mind you, people runing around complaining about bathrooms and screeching their lungs out about Trump, burning cars and smashing windows in and all that are silly and some are outright criminals, but they are not comparable with people that actually want a genocide or following an ideology that would lead to it, when you think it trough.
There is no KKK on the political left or even something that's remotely comparable with it as organisation, even if we take the Antifa, and sometimes people even compare BLM to the KKK which is absolute nonsense - not to mention that BLM isn't even a 'leftist' movement and just a civil rights movement at best. I mean, what would it mean if someone seriously tried to make the US into some kind of ethno state? If we follow some of the more popular right wing rhetoric/white supremacy ideas. Let's face it, there is no peacefull way to make that happen, regardless what some right wingers say or believe. This idea that it would be some kind of equivlance is missleading and historicaly grounded on extreme conservatives and right wingers building the left up as a 'scare-crow'. Hence why I usually like to get to the bare definitions of left wing and right wing ideology:
Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.[1][2][3][4] It typically involves a concern for those in society whom its adherents perceive as disadvantaged relative to others (prioritarianism) as well as a belief that there are unjustified inequalities that need to be reduced or abolished (by advocating for social justice).[1] The term left-wing can also refer to "the radical, reforming, or socialist section of a political party or system".[5]
Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable,[1][2][3] typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.[4]:p. 693, 721[5][6][7][8][9][page needed] Hierarchy and inequality may be viewed as natural results of traditional social differences[10][11] or the competition in market economies.[12][13] The term right-wing can generally refer to "the conservative or reactionary section of a political party or system".[14]
Right-wing politics hold that certain social orders and hierarchies are inevitable, natural, normal or desirable,[1][2][3] typically supporting this position on the basis of natural law, economics or tradition.[4]:p. 693, 721[5][6][7][8][9][page needed] Hierarchy and inequality may be viewed as natural results of traditional social differences[10][11] or the competition in market economies.[12][13] The term right-wing can generally refer to "the conservative or reactionary section of a political party or system".[14]
Just to make this clear, yes there are shit heads, criminals, vandals and even terrorists on the left side and yes they do deserve the full punishment of the law, but I am not talking about individuals here but the ideology and the political spectrum. As a matter of fact, you will have a very hard time finding people advocating gay rights, same sex marriage, women's rights activists, anti-racists and civil rights activist to be on the right/far right campaiging for equality and social equality. It's stupid to call everyone a racist or all instutions racist, we're not living in the 1950s anymore, but it is also true that there are still a lot inequalities present and that discrimination is still a reality. It's simply silly to think there is some equivalency here, infact it's one of the oldest tricks in the book of the extreme right to paint the left as 'just the same' which they have to fight - aka: the extreme right is the answer to the extreme left!. For example, to be a leftist dictator you have to become authoritarian, where as authoritarianism is an inherent part of the right and they pose a much larger threat to our democracies, at least in the current political climate that's heavily polarized. I just want to remind you, that some right wingers voted against Paul Ryans health care 'reform', because it wasn't extreme enough for them, this is the kind of political spectrum we're really dealing with here, and neither Obama or Hillary are an represenation of the left or progressivism, Hillary is a neo-conserative and Obama a neo-liberal. Right now, the left has no real political representation in US politicas, the closest you might have are people like Bernie Sanders who rather qualify as Social Democrats. This alone highlights how far main-stream politics has moved to the right, where the Democrats today could qualify as the Republicans of the 1980s.
There is no equivalance between the political left and right and by just looking at the fringe groups within it and the lunatics on each side, it's completely distorting what those movements are where wel just end up with "The left is all for illegal migrants flooding us and the right wants secure borders!". But it's far far more nuanced than that, you can be a leftist and for secure borders too, but if people just want an excuse to spout their racist nonsense, well then they shouldn't be surprised if they are called out on it.
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