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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Right/Left Identity Politics
« Reply #15 on: August 30, 2017, 05:13:38 pm »
"Self absorbed idiots" don't usually work to extend equal rights to people who are different than themselves, such as skin color, sexual orientation, religious beliefs etc. etc. The right should get their heads out of the sand.

The left does this because in their minds they fight for the oppressed against the more powerful oppressors.  But many people on the left have a very self-righteous view of their own morality, where if you somewhat disagree with their fundamental moral stances you are immediately labeled & completely written off as a racist/homophobe/Islamophobe  etc & then publicly shamed for it.  I know this because I leaned more leftwing than I do now for most of my adult-life so I can look back & realize I've done this & still catch myself doing it.

Now, sometimes you might be a racist/homophobe etc, but sometimes you aren't & just disagree on a particular point & then are falsely labelled such in order to shut down discussion of all who disagree.  This causes those who disagree (especially if you're white, straight, CIS, and/or male etc. aka not among the oppressed group) to fear publicly disagreeing so as not be labeled a racist etc., which people regard as a terrible rep to have.  This is an increasing tactic of the left, I don't agree with it but it's extremely effective, & in the war of ideas it's tactically brilliant.

How the left is "self-absorbed" is also that they empathize with the oppressed groups they sympathize with, but they don't bother ever empathizing with the people they disagree with.  The right is guilty of this too. Each side views the world with fundamentally opposed moral perspectives & each fails to understand how their rivals could think the way they do without being evil naive ignorant idiots.
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