Author Topic: Right/Left Identity Politics  (Read 1776 times)

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Offline Omni

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Re: Right/Left Identity Politics
« on: August 30, 2017, 12:23:20 am »
A rational person can seek a compromise with people they view as idiots. A rational person cannot seek a compromise with people they view as evil. But the bigger barrier is the general attitude of people on the left that require ideological conformity to the point where it is not enough for a libertarian to agree with the left on gay rights or immigration they are still evil if they oppose higher minimum wages or affirmative action. There is much greater diversity of thought on the right than on the left and the unwillingness to accept diversity of thought on the left is why there is such an impasse.

If we left it to the "diversity of thought" from the right I'm afraid we would still be bashing gays and forcing our children to recite the Lord's Prayer every morning before classes started.