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The "dangerous" ideas of Quillette are mostly just bog standard conservative talking points, you realise when you browse it for a few minutes.
by thundergolfer 8y ago
The "dangerous" ideas of Quillette are mostly just bog standard conservative talking points, you realise when you browse it for a few minutes.
- zethraeus 8y agoI don't think that's quite fair. For example, I've never seen being against factory farming as a conservative platform. https://quillette.com/2018/11/07/a-world-without-animal-farming/ https://quillette.com/2018/11/07/a-world-without-animal-farm...
- User23 8y agoThere is a distinction between the talking head Conservative, Inc. shills and the actual desire to conserve one's patrimony. Opposing factory farming is, by definition, a position held by small family farmers and they certainly count as conservatives.
- perilunar 8y agoThe article is a review of a book about ending all animal farming, not just factory farming.
- m52go 8y agoWhich conservative outlets would you say are similar to Quillette? I've been reading it for a while and consider it a fair bit more thoughtful than other outlets, even if it skews conservative.
- mancerayder 8y agoI think people sometimes (especially on the identitarian Left) equate questioning the Left as automatically being on the "Other Team." I'm on the same Team and I think self-criticism is important to avoid turning into dogmatic robots, and dangerous ones at that.
- stcredzero 8y agoI think people sometimes (especially on the identitarian Left) equate questioning the Left as automatically being on the "Other Team." When people reach the point that merely asking questions marks you as "the enemy," it's precisely those people who constitute the greatest danger. For one thing, it indicates that 1) they aren't interested in dissent, nuance, or their own fallibility and 2) they think they have enough power to behave in such an authoritarian fashion.
- spamizbad 8y agoI feel like Quillette is what The Weekly Standard would be like in a world where evangelical Christianity, AM talk Radio and Fox News never grabbed hold of the conservative psyche. Also I agree with the OP: the vast majority of its takes wouldn’t be out of place in mainstream conservative political media, but they’re a bit more highbrow and less clickbaity, and have less of a “triggering the libs” vibe to have mainstream penetration. (Disclaimer: I’m a lefty)
- perilunar 8y agoI don't find it conservative. Definitely anti-PC though. More centrist or perhaps slightly libertarian. On Lehmann's personal politics, she says: “I would identify with the left if they were a little more old-school in their advocacy for workers,” “Sometimes there are misrepresentations, and people assume that my politics is far more right-wing than it actually is,” she says. “I think because I’m Australian, and I take so many things for granted like universal health care, access to abortion, and we don’t have guns everywhere.”
- jimmy1 8y agoI find Quillette to be more libertarian-leaning than anything, which to me, ironically, would be what most would consider the left to be in the 90s. I certainly held most of the views found on Quillette and have historically considered myself to be left-leaning in the past, having voted democrat most of my life, but these days I am not sure I fit in anymore. Being "anti-PC culture/anti safe-space" or anti-SJW isn't only a conservative viewpoint either.