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seeing CNN and "progressive" in the same context befuddles me - these guys are center-right in almost every sense. I guess that's just where the Overton window
by linkingday 4y ago
seeing CNN and "progressive" in the same context befuddles me - these guys are center-right in almost every sense. I guess that's just where the Overton window is nowadays
- zmgsabst 4y agoIf you think CNN is “center right”, you’re revealing your own far left biases.
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- JaimeThompson 4y agoHow are you using "far left" in this instance?
- upsidesinclude 4y agoTo the left of progressive Democrat and then farther still Edit: clearly the down votes don't seem to see the context wherein OP has described the commenter. My post is not an opinion, it's the contextual position given by the OP. But by all means downvote away per your bias. Thanks Mods
- linkingday 4y agowhat if I told you that Democrats aren't even on the left, when it comes to the rest of the world?
- teakettle42 4y agoIt’d suggest that you’re viewing the world from a radically far left perspective.
- linkingday 4y agoor...from the perspective that much of Europe views it. American politics is bunk, bought and sold by corporations that think of nothing but profit, by design. literally a country where bribery is legal and encouraged
- JaimeThompson 4y agoIs one on the "radical left" if they think LGBTQ people should be able to get married, that the non-religious / non-Christians should have equal rights? This is a serious question, not a troll. I ask it because the "conservative" party in the US explicitly is against such things in their platform documents. It's rather strange to me that it is so hard for the term "radical left" to be defined in any sort of objective way, often it seems no definition is available at all which makes discussions about the topics hard to have.
- PraetorianGourd 4y agoLGBTQ people can get married federally, and there is no serious effort to reverse that. It is disingenuous to use marriage rights as a litmus test because whether one morally supports it is irrelevant under the law. What rights do Christians have over others?
- JaimeThompson 4y agoPlease see my response to teakettle42 in this thread.
- teakettle42 4y ago> Is one on the "radical left" if they think LGBTQ people should be able to get married, that the non-religious / non-Christians should have equal rights? This is a serious question, not a troll. No, that is not “radically far left.” In 2019, according to Pew Research, 44% of “Republicans and Republican leaners” supported same-sex marriage. As for your question about equal rights for “non-religious / non-Christians”, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Can you elaborate? > I ask it because the "conservative" party in the US explicitly is against such things in their platform documents. I assume you’re referring to the Republican Party platform document? It’s quite large; can you identify the portions you’re specifically referring to?
- upsidesinclude 4y agoThe rest of the world isn't leading the world. Besides your comment being some broad generalization, it fails to assert the reality of the 'world' and in its place takes a group of progressive first world countries which align with liberal politics. The world includes such places as India, Pakistan, Africa and China, oh my, where liberal ideology is a far cry from what you are describing
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- MockObject 4y agoIt's irrelevant, because we're discussing an American network.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> Too the left of progressive Democrat and then farther still CNN is not to the left of progressive Democrats. It's not even to the left of the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party.
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- JaimeThompson 4y ago> calling leftists rioting and committing arson “mostly peaceful” What they said was “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING" according to the link you provided. The vast majority of those involved in the protect didn't commit crimes, correct?
- teakettle42 4y agoIt’s telling that when the favored side has protests fraught with arson, destruction, violence, and even multiple deaths, it’s “mostly peaceful” and “the vast majority didn’t commit crimes”. Whereas when a single act of violence occurs on the disfavored side, that’s used to paint the entire protest as violent, and indeed, the entire disfavored political demographic as irredeemable. The double standard is exceedingly clear.
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- arrrg 4y agoThat‘s partisan, not left.
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- bozhark 4y agoOnly in America*
- mardifoufs 4y agoThis is totally false. On social issues It would be comfortably to the left even in europe. Probably not on foreign policy though, I'd agree
- bitwize 4y ago"Far left" in America is "center right" in a sane country. Card-carrying communists sit in the parliaments of some Western democracies. Yet they somehow still get on as democracies, without many of the problems that plague the USA like wars of resource appropriation, rampant racism, and school shootings.
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- mthoms 4y agoI’m a (non-American) outsider unfamiliar with either of those, but a quick reading leads me to believe that your description is so reductionist as to be intentionally misleading. There’s more nuance to it than “attempts to overturn civil rights”. Just my opinion. Also, it’s not clear from the links (or I missed it) but are you calling these “Democratic” initiatives because they were the official position of the Democratic Party or simply because they are occurred in mostly left leaning states?
- zmgsabst 4y ago> There’s more nuance to it than “attempts to overturn civil rights”. These are repealing civil rights laws in order to recreate government bigotry. Factually, that is what they do. You can feel that institutionalizing racism is a good idea — the “nuance” you say I’m omitting — but that doesn’t change that these are attempts to repeal civil rights laws which ban discrimination on the basis of protected class. > are you calling these “Democratic” initiatives because they were the official position of the Democratic Party Yes — re-creating institutionalized racism is part of the Democrat party platform, using euphemisms like “equity”.
- vlunkr 4y agoSorry to slow down the AMERICA BAD train, but this seems pretty naive. These are incredibly complex, long running issues, and comparing the US with much smaller and less diverse countries is pretty pointless. Every country falls somewhere on the political spectrum, implying that they are all insane because the aren't Sweden or something is revealing some heavy bias.
- MrMan 4y agoI am used to Cuba, Venezuela, Kerala as examples of places where far-left ideologies can be found. CNN has a materialist capitalist free-market POV as far as I can tell but since it became the missing child network with Nancy Grace I stopped ever watching it because its annoying, not because its far left.
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- treesknees 4y agoIn which senses are they center-right? This is the first time I've ever heard someone refer to CNN as anywhere near the right. AllSides Bias Rating puts them on the left, https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart Pew Research shows a significant slant toward the left in terms of CNN's audience, https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/interactives/media-polarization/outlet/cnn https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/interactives/media-po... Searching CNN in this bias chart shows center-left, https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/ https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/ From 2014 but still showing CNN toward the left, https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444 https://guides.lib.umich.edu/c.php?g=637508&p=4462444
- pueblito 4y agoFor me, personally, the nonstop rotation of defense lobbyists and uncritical parroting of anything put out by the Pentagon makes CNN appear pretty right wing to me. Especially since it’s a bunch of intelligence community apparatchiks doing the parroting. Everything else they report comes from PR NewsWire, and to me that union of corporate power and media also seems very right wing
- Clubber 4y agoI think CNN is definitely allied with the Democratic Party. Both parties are hawks when it serves their interest, so not having intelligence propaganda showing wouldn't be an option. For those that downvoted him, many of the CNN "war contributors" have ties with the defense industry that are not disclosed, and those are all pro-war/intervention. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/news-networks-use-retired-military-brass-as-war-analysts-without-disclosing-their-defense-industry-ties/2020/01/13/7b507bfe-323c-11ea-91fd-82d4e04a3fac_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/news-networks... https://jacobin.com/2022/04/defense-industry-ex-military-officials-pundits-corporate-news-ukraine https://jacobin.com/2022/04/defense-industry-ex-military-off... This has been going on for decades. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html EDIT: I just noticed but I think it's funny that the WaPo has an article showing that the defense industry has infiltrated our news organizations in the lifestyle section. It's almost as if the editors are trying to hide the fact. I would think it would be a front page thing. Pretty significant assault on the democratic process, particularly on a subject as immense as war.
- rayiner 4y agoWhat do you mean by “almost every sense?” In say Germany, abortion is illegal after the first trimester, riots are stopped by police, I can get Christian classes for my kids in a public school, and the government doesn’t make eligibility for benefits dependent on people’s skin color. CNN is to the left of Germany on each of those issues.
- lupire 4y agoEh, the German government will pay for abortions in first trimester, rape/abuse, or an important danger to mother's mental/physical health, or if the fetus is disabled (Yay Nazis?). Germany allows nudity, sex work, and prostitution; bans Nazi imagery; and has socialized medicine.
- rayiner 4y ago> Eh, the German government will pay for abortions in first trimester, rape/abuse, or an important danger to mother's mental/physical health, or if the fetus is disabled (Yay Nazis?). The Mississippi law that supposedly violates Roe also allows abortions after 15 weeks in case of danger to the mother’s health and fetal abnormalities. And unlike in Germany, there is no mandatory counseling or waiting period. The Mississippi law is more similar to the German law than different—certainly much closer to each other than to Roe, which requires legalized elective abortions for two months after nearly all other developed countries ban the practice. I’ll certainly grant you that, when it comes to the government paying for things, CNN is definitely in the center. But that’s just one of many issues.
- derevaunseraun 4y agoI'm convinced that whenever people feel the need to say a news source is right, left, or center, they're usually trying to redefine "the center". The way that someone classifies a news source politically is almost always a perfect indicator of their politics
- MockObject 4y agoCan I just say how absurd it would be to reduce music, art, cooking, literature, sexuality, religions, or fashion down to a simplified one-dimensional spectrum, so maybe we should think twice about doing this with politics, which is equally complex and nuanced as any of those other fields of human endeavor. To do so is to invite confusion, and synthetic arguments not about policy, but terminology.