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This is clearly incorrect. MSNBC is pretty strongly left / progressive.
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
This is clearly incorrect. MSNBC is pretty strongly left / progressive.
- harimau777 2y agoUnfortunately, that's not the case. MSNBC tends to advocate for liberal positions which, while on the left side of right wing, is still a right wing position. You don't see them advocating much for social democracy let alone more extreme forms of socialism.
- jlawson 2y agoIf you set your 'center' at your personal position, instead of the center of the population as a whole, you get weird results. I.e. to someone else, Fox News isn't advocating to deport all non-whites, therefore they're just the right side of the left-wing blob. In real life, left-wing means left-wing relative the population, not relative to you personally.
- harimau777 2y agoIf we define left wing in terms of the population as a whole, then there is a huge portion of the population that is opposed to neo-liberal & far right positions and there are no major media organizations that represent them. That's the point that I am attempting to make.
- timeon 2y agoMost people in the US have not encountered the 'left'. Democrats, do have progressive wing but in general they are center-right/right while Republicans are far-right at this point. (Even ignoring the Nazi salutes at Republican rallies).