You wanna know some fucked up shit? The origins of “left wing” and “right wing” originated from the French Revolutionary era, where commoners (who opposed) sat on the left of the king, and aristocrats (who supported) sat on the right.
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This goes back to Roman times
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much like the whole left = sinister, right = dextrous thing...
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Sinister from a Latin word meaning “on the left side, unlucky, inauspicious.”
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It's got to go further back than that. The Bible makes a big deal of Jesus sitting at the right hand of the Father.
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I see where you’re going, but the fact is that the left side of the French National Assembly (“the “Mountain”), had much of the power and drove most of the vision of the Revolution, so I think that’s coincidental to the other left=negative, right=positive, things of culture.
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Not really. Being a driving force behind a revolution means those benefiting from the status quo are not going to like what you have to say.
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I have always assumed this is the origin of the English word "gauche"
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And I thought Da Vinci painted Judas at Jesus' left side (with John at his right) for the same reasons.
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Why wouldn't the term right hand man come from how most people are right-handed, because they can trust the right hand more than their left? The stigma against left handedness is many centuries-old.
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