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"Lefties" isn't really an insult any more than "neoliberals" is. It's just a description of a political position. What you're doing here though, is classical l
by sievebrain 10y ago
"Lefties" isn't really an insult any more than "neoliberals" is. It's just a description of a political position.
What you're doing here though, is classical left-ism: taking an innocuous statement and claiming it's terribly offensive in order to distract from his/her point.
- dang 10y ago"Lefties" is name calling. If one didn't mean it that way one would at a minimum say "leftists" or "the left"—assuming a native English speaker, which may not have been the case above. Your comment turned this into an ideological swipe in its own right. Please don't do that here. If we're to have civil, substantive discourse across political differences, people need to respect each others' views. That may be too much to hope for, but we can at least eschew derision. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030641 and marked it off-topic.
- ionised 10y ago'Lefty' is just dismissing someone's viewpoint as invalid because it differes from your own. It's a way to argue without actually saying anything of value. 'Neoliberal' on the other hand is a term with quite well-defined definitions.