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Yes. I haven't seen anyone on the left disputing or disparaging it.

• SauciestGNU 9y ago
  And that could be an attitudinal thing. Why should I care about how someone else personally identifies? Why should I be disparaging about something that will have minimal or no effect on me? I think this is part of why some conservatives find themselves unwelcome. Being outwardly disparaging toward people does not make you friends.
  • RickJWag 9y ago
    I'm offering an alternative view of "bat shit crazy". It may be harmless (as you correctly point out), but it is not tethered to reality.
• hsod 9y ago
  Fascinating. Have you seen the mainstream left be actively accepting of it? Rachel Dolezal (by far the most famous case that I know of) was pilloried by the left for cultural appropriation: https://www.google.com/search?ei=x-UhWuymEIyojwOc6Kz4Bw&q=rachel+dolezal+cultural+approriation https://www.google.com/search?ei=x-UhWuymEIyojwOc6Kz4Bw&q=ra...
  • RickJWag 9y ago
    Thanks for providing the search link. By my reading, a lot of those are sympathetic to Dolezal, not critical. Shouldn't there be universal condemnation?
    • krapp 9y ago
      Why should there be universal condemnation or acceptance? "The left" is not a spec or rigidly defined ideological canon that all "leftists" conform to. As with "the right", "capitalists", "socialists" or any other political or cultural generalization, actual "leftists" can comprise a spectrum of acceptance or disagreement.