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Where I live, in Bristol, it's strange as we're a very lefty city surrounded by right-leaning counties. I often forget that my experience is so slanted until I
by ndsipa_pomu 4y ago
Where I live, in Bristol, it's strange as we're a very lefty city surrounded by right-leaning counties. I often forget that my experience is so slanted until I end up discussing events with non-Bristolians and then I'm just shocked at what they believe.
- arp242 4y agoAnd even Bristol is not as left-wing as it pretends to be, IMHO. If it had been located in the US people would be talking about a segregated city. Rioting because a Tesco's opens is not being "lefty", and neither is buying drugs on Stokes Croft. I think Bristol is actually a good example of everything that's wrong with the modern left, which seems to have shifted almost exclusively to self-centred goals such as "I want to be gay and do drugs". All of that is fine and I'm in favour of that too, but if that's the only thing... I don't want to arrogantly sit here as the arbitrator of who is and isn't a "true" lefty, but to me, you're not really left-wing if that's all you care about.
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoI don't agree with your characterisation of Bristol people - there's a lot of people and there's certainly some richer areas. It seems like you're setting up a strawman - that the 'modern lefties' only care about two distinct topics and then making value judgements based on that. There's also a hint of the True Scotsman fallacy, but you're not defining what you consider to be 'true' left-wing.