I was going to write exactly the same comment. I love Bari and what she is doing, but she is quintessential left wing, just like Alex. But she is honest and forthright and that is good enough for me.
I was going to write exactly the same comment. I love Bari and what she is doing, but she is quintessential left wing, just like Alex. But she is honest and forthright and that is good enough for me.
yes, completely agree. I really wish we could change how we talk about the "political spectrum." I look at it across two intersecting spectrums. There is ideology and there is belief structure within that ideology.
Left believes in categorization and control by biology (tribal warfare) and the right believes in categorization and control by religion. Modern "leftists" are actually far right - the commitment to the religion of woke is the determinant of a human's value. What we call the modern far right is actually the far left (ACTUAL white/black supremacists). In the middle is "liberalism" - your humanity is your value.
Overlapped on that is your belief structure. The woke, the catholic crusaders and the sunni's are all the same in ideology - your value is your commitment to the religion - but wildly different in beliefs.
We do everyone a massive disservice when we conflate these two. "Conservative" is a beliefs designation - and Bari isn't conservative, she's left of center belief wise, though likely very close to center given all she's finally opened herself up to learning - and what I believe Alex meant is that she's liberal in ideology (believes in individual liberty regardless of biology or religion) which makes her to the right (it's actually the left) of the "mainstream" position which is pretty far right today (if you don't do the religious ritual of vaccination you are removed from polite society, etc...)
Anyway - I hate that we conflate these two. The government/mainstream does it on purpose to ensure we can't have honest discussion on things like abortion (separate the ideology from the belief and then determine where we find compromise, or don't, on both continuums) and therefore stay divided, enabling them to concentrate more power - but we shouldn't play into it because we're being intellectually lazy
I was going to write exactly the same comment. I love Bari and what she is doing, but she is quintessential left wing, just like Alex. But she is honest and forthright and that is good enough for me.
So was I. I read both Bari and Alex, free speech is the hill that unites us all. Tell the truth and I will read it, and not attach a label.
yes, completely agree. I really wish we could change how we talk about the "political spectrum." I look at it across two intersecting spectrums. There is ideology and there is belief structure within that ideology.
Left believes in categorization and control by biology (tribal warfare) and the right believes in categorization and control by religion. Modern "leftists" are actually far right - the commitment to the religion of woke is the determinant of a human's value. What we call the modern far right is actually the far left (ACTUAL white/black supremacists). In the middle is "liberalism" - your humanity is your value.
Overlapped on that is your belief structure. The woke, the catholic crusaders and the sunni's are all the same in ideology - your value is your commitment to the religion - but wildly different in beliefs.
We do everyone a massive disservice when we conflate these two. "Conservative" is a beliefs designation - and Bari isn't conservative, she's left of center belief wise, though likely very close to center given all she's finally opened herself up to learning - and what I believe Alex meant is that she's liberal in ideology (believes in individual liberty regardless of biology or religion) which makes her to the right (it's actually the left) of the "mainstream" position which is pretty far right today (if you don't do the religious ritual of vaccination you are removed from polite society, etc...)
Anyway - I hate that we conflate these two. The government/mainstream does it on purpose to ensure we can't have honest discussion on things like abortion (separate the ideology from the belief and then determine where we find compromise, or don't, on both continuums) and therefore stay divided, enabling them to concentrate more power - but we shouldn't play into it because we're being intellectually lazy