Originally Posted by
steelreserve
It most definitely does NOT happen both ways. The conservative equivalent of "cancel culture" is a few fanatics calling to boycott something and then nobody really pays much attention to them. The liberal version is tracking individual people down and harassing them, threatening them, harassing their employers until they are fired from their jobs.
Which side will vandalize your property? Which side uses violence? Which side mobs people in the street? Which side uses the media as a weapon? Which side stages phony hate crimes? Which side bans opposing views from being discussed in public? If you parked a car with a Trump bumper sticker in downtown San Francisco, and parked another car with a Bernie bumper sticker in a town in rural Texas, and came back 4 hours later, which one do you think would be trashed with the tires cut and the windows smashed?
What conservatives do is mainly the standard ways of applying political pressure, and the ones who cross the line (largely religious extremists) are frowned upon even by other conservatives. Leftists use personal bullying and intimidation as their bread and butter.
It is not even close, and saying "both sides do it" is just a weak attempt to distance themselves from the outright disgusting behavior that is widespread among those who share those beliefs. No, it is not the same, and it is not just a few bad apples doing it who are ostracized by the rest. It is widespread and It is cheered on by a large part of the Democratic base. There is no downplaying it. That is the behavior that you are either rationalizing or pretending doesn't exist if you are a modern liberal.