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I thought I made my point in a reasonably civilized manner. Even if it's wrong, I don't think your attitude is constructive to me getting a better understanding

I thought I made my point in a reasonably civilized manner. Even if it's wrong, I don't think your attitude is constructive to me getting a better understanding. Maybe I'm muddling my semantics but right "wing" tells me that one's leaning to the right pretty far away from the center, so in my mind it does not comprise "half of the political spectrum". US politics are not my politics and I apologize if I offended you and some of the other commenters that seem aggravated by my interpretation of the term.

floor2 6y ago
It seems like you have just a genuine misunderstanding due to language and culture. American discourse uses "right wing" and "left wing" frequently and broadly, someone saying they're "right wing" does not mean they are "far right" or extreme or anything like that. Particularly in the context of the original poster, it's a common idiom to state something like "I'm generally left-wing, but I think <insert opposing view on some issue>" as a very clearly centrist person.