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My guess is that the label "far-right" is used to describe him and others because their ideology leans towards some kind of extreme. If you listen to Tate's rhe
by lusus_naturae 3y ago
My guess is that the label "far-right" is used to describe him and others because their ideology leans towards some kind of extreme. If you listen to Tate's rhetoric (I am only going by snippets here and there), it is very cartoonishly macho. Usually characteristics from that kind of caricature are associated with ideologies that strip women of freedoms and rights, e.g. to birth control or to abortion. So one can assume based on his rhetoric that he's right-leaning at least, and when you couple that with a pugilist personality that gives a "I am always right" vibe, people cannot be faulted for saying that that's a far-right personality.
I think far-right/left is usually used to denote personalities that don't believe in compromise (win-win or lose-lose scenarios), but only dominance of the other (zero-sum outooks).