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Australia has been slipping hard right for quite some time

• claytongulick 5y ago
  I'm curious why you associate these things with "hard right"? Would you consider China to be "hard right?" Silencing dissenting viewpoints seems to be very much a modern "left" thing to me. As a liberal, I've been dismayed at how the modern left seems to have completely abandoned the mantle of liberalism.
  • dkdbejwi383 5y ago
    The whole "left vs. right" thing is reductive. Politics isn't so simple that it can be mapped onto a 2d space.
  • hnbad 5y ago
    Since you seem to be confident using political labels, could you clarify what you think "left" ideologies are? For the record, calling these policies "left" or "right" is silly as authoritarianism isn't inherently one or the other. But whether China even qualifies as "leftist" is extremely debatable even if it was already quite authoritarian under Mao.
    • claytongulick 5y ago
      I agree with you completely, authoritarianism is on a different axis than "left" or "right". I was commenting on what I am seeing coming from those who described themselves as being ideologically aligned with the "left" today. I see censorship, speech limiting, "canceling", compelled speech, etc, coming from that area today. When I was a kid in the 80s and 90s this was very much the kind of thing I saw coming from the "right", limiting expression for political and religious reasons. Like I mentioned, as a liberal (which I don't belive is inherently left or right) I've been disappointed in the modern "left" which seems to me to be taking a step back from liberalism. I see a lot of authoritarianism coming from that direction right now.
      • hnbad 5y ago
        I was going to respond in good faith but unless you qualify what you mean by "compelled speech" I cannot do so in good conscience because the only time I see that phrase is as a dogwhistle for transphobes.