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> But they won't change their position. If anything, their position will be radicalized. For example, from classical liberal to alt-right. You make an excellen
by jshevek 9y ago
> But they won't change their position. If anything, their position will be radicalized. For example, from classical liberal to alt-right.
You make an excellent point. I am a lifelong feminist, anti-racist, pro-LBTQ atheist who passionately desires a fair, just, egalitarian world.
In the last three years I've discovered: Many conservatives actually share my fundamental values, and do so with more integrity than most liberals I have known.
I seek out honest, rational, factual people to listen to - only to have the media and my liberal friends try, absurdly, to defame them as "alt right"
What does "alt right" even mean, any more? I understand its racist origins, but going by actual usage, it appears to include "good people, with good intentions, who also value reason and evidence"
Edit: To clarify the relevance of this to your comment - I would never have been exposed to so many views on the right if it hadn't been for the irrational, hateful, totalitarian intolerance that I've experienced in recent years from some parts of the left. Not all, obviously!