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> The left takes its vision seriously — more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
> The left takes its vision seriously — more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.
(“Left” in this context is the authoritarian top-left of the political quadrant)
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- prionassembly 6y agoThe political quadrant model is seriously overrated. It may be that libertarian/authoritarian Left is a meaningful distinction in some contexts and not others; or that authoritarian Left/Right is a useful categorization for some purposes, but not for others.
- bhupy 6y agoWhy, specifically?
- prionassembly 6y agoBecause the pair of distinctions chosen makes sense in some cases and not in others. I provided two examples in my comment above.
- bhupy 6y agoI don't see any examples in your comment.
- prionassembly 6y agoI might be engaging a troll, but I'll ctrl-c ctrl-v. "It may be that libertarian/authoritarian Left is a meaningful distinction in some contexts and not others; or that authoritarian Left/Right is a useful categorization for some purposes, but not for others."
- bhupy 6y agoSeriously, I am not trolling. Those are not an examples, you're just re-iterating why you think the quadrants are inappropriate. My question is what are some specific examples of "contexts" in which lib/auth left/right is NOT a meaningful distinction? From where I sit, the quadrant is the least bad way to classify and categorize ideological views. It's certainly less lossy than categorizing on a single dimensional left/right spectrum.