I don't buy the premise.
There are more than two sides to almost every issue. And within any side there are opinions and perspectives that I respect, and those that I do not respect. What I tend to hate about opinions, right or left is the following:
-Doesn't acknowledge empirical facts
-Doesn't know the nuances and details of the issue
-Doesn't acknowledge the weak-points in their argument or state their assumptions
-Can't back up their beliefs with a logical argument
-Generally making radical or extreme statements
-Ignorant of history and intellectual basis for their position
While bedstuy and I don't agree on many issues, I think he's captured the gist of my opinion on this one quite well 
-- except perhaps for his fifth point
I think I should explain what I mean. I'm fine with someone having a radical or extreme point of view. I just think that radical or audacious statements require extraordinary arguments or at least sensitivity to the fact that you're saying something audacious.
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