The Toxicity of the Vocal Left

How the “twitter left” undermines their own struggle.

Erik Engheim
7 min readDec 29, 2020

Most people don’t want to get into heated and unpleasant political discussions. The result of that is that the most toxic personalities dominate online discourse. Yeah I know, this sounds really dark, but apart from writing about microprocessors I am quite passionate about politics and society. And lately some of the debates I see on twitter just got me into ranting mode. So you will have to excuse me that I write with a certain hyperbole and exaggurations. I am probably not as angry as I sound 😉

Anyway in our gallery of unpleasant social media personalities we got the right represented by Trump droids, dog whistling racists and misogynists.

While over on the left side we got the radicals who see the heterosexual white male as the embodiment of all things evil. Especially if he is old.

The Useful Idiots

Each side serve as useful idiots to the other. The loud uncompromising male hating leftists serve as proof to right-wingers that there is no place for white males on the left. Or rather there is a place, but only if you are as narrow minded as them or completely shut up, parrot their ideas and don’t have opinions of your own.

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Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.