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> You could go further and say "Defend individual liberty" is a neutral description of rightist policy. Tell that to arch-conservative Anthony Comstock: https
by msla 6y ago
> You could go further and say "Defend individual liberty" is a neutral description of rightist policy.
Tell that to arch-conservative Anthony Comstock:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws
> The Comstock Laws were a set of federal acts passed by the United States Congress under the Grant administration along with related state laws.[1] The "parent" act (Sect. 211) was passed on March 3, 1873, as the Act for the "Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use".
Similarly, all of the other religious arguments for censorship, such as the Roman Catholic Church's list of banned books:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum
The Papist Church is definitely quite conservative.
- dmurray 6y agoThe Roman Catholic Church (is "Papist" some kind of dogwhistle slur these days?) would often be thought of as economically leftist. Give large amounts of your money to the ruling institution, they spend it on helping the less fortunate. Sure, it has corruption problems and much of the wealth doesn't make it to the needy. Same with many institutions on the left or right. It's obviously also socially conservative.
- tom_ 6y agoNot much dogwhistling in "Papist", I don't think?! - I'd always interpret that as negative...
- msla 6y ago> The Roman Catholic Church (is "Papist" some kind of dogwhistle slur these days?) would often be thought of as economically leftist. It isn't leftist, it's anti-leftist, given that it has a decree against Communism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_against_Communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_against_Communism Also, "Papist" is a traditional Conservative term, as per the very Conservative Protestants and Anglicans. I didn't realize a Conservative word would cause offense.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI think it’s an extension of “name people what they want to be named”. If Roman Catholics would think it’s offensive, then it is.
- amadeuspagel 6y agoPlenty of leftists don't like communism.
- dmurray 6y agoIt's fairer to say that Marxism has a decree against religion. Regardless, hating one leftist institution doesn't put you on the right. Tito hated Stalin who hated Mao - which one of them do you think was on the right wing?