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The cultural left is becoming increasingly like the right in some ways and I’m not sure how I feel. On one hand, this might be helpful because the imbalance bet
by zusammen 2y ago
The cultural left is becoming increasingly like the right in some ways and I’m not sure how I feel. On one hand, this might be helpful because the imbalance between a restrained left and an obnoxious right has been pushing the Overton Window in conservatives’ favor for decades and I’d be happy to see that stop. On the other hand, it upsets me to see other leftists be misinformed. Low T is a real health problem for a lot of men—-this isn’t manosphere bullshit.
I stopped calling myself a liberal in the 90s because I went to Europe for business a lot and liberal, funny enough, means conservative over there. I never really felt progressive fit—-too moderate, because it assumes all you have to do is sustain progress, but that speed isn’t crucial. And I am still on the far left but I feel less at home on the left since the shamefully misinformed reactions to the Simchat Torah massacre. I don’t support Israel’s far right government, but most of the people murdered didn’t either, and watching high school kids in Palo Alto chant a literal genocidal slogan was a wake-up call.
- aguaviva 2y agoWatching high school kids in Palo Alto chant a literal genocidal slogan was a wake-up call. Except most likely it wasn't. An actual, "literal" genocidal slogan, that is. The simple, boring fact is -- whatever import along those lines (that you see in whatever they were saying) probably wasn't what they intended it to have. Most of the ones using it are simply, as you are correctly pointing out -- grossly misinformed.
- zusammen 2y ago[dead]