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What you’re describing sounds a lot more like centrist pragmatism than it does the dogmatic progressivism growing popular in the west. It sounds to me like wha
by joenot443 4y ago
What you’re describing sounds a lot more like centrist pragmatism than it does the dogmatic progressivism growing popular in the west.
It sounds to me like what you’re describing is “using facts and data to better understand your experience of reality” which is certainly not what I would call the progressive mindset these days.
- kuschku 4y agoThat's a claim that's commonly echoed on the right, but that's mostly because of filter bubbles. Centre-left politics (or even leftist politics such as Bernie Sanders) are still firmly founded in facts and data. But that's not what people perceive. Take for example crime. Crime statistics have trended down in all areas for years. Yet you'll hear more about crime in your Twitter feed or on conservative news today than you'd have heard 10, 20 years ago. This kind of selection bias can lead to a massively different perception of reality compared to what actual reality is.
- tomrod 4y ago> centrist pragmatism than it does the dogmatic progressivism Correct, centrist pragmatism is the core of what US conservatives rail against universities regarding and deem "Leftist", "Woke", or "Progressive" due to modern propaganda bubbles. It's hard to communicate this point through the haze of propaganda, sure to get worse with generative text. This is also why most techno-libertarian companies are deemed "leftist" -- broken barometer.