I don't know whether this experience is common, but I've found it difficult to navigate politically-neutrally when both sides of the culture war fetishise people's identity so much.
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Replying to @salonium @HPluckrose
Then you aren’t paying sufficient attention. Identity politics is rare on the Right, and even the few who propose such politics are in the main responding defensively to the race-baiting and divisiveness of the Left.
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Replying to @wellydog67 @salonium
Oh nonsense, nationalism, religious identity, racial identity have all been central to right forever.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @salonium
See if you can spot your logical fallacy, Pluckrose.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @salonium
A. Why does your request have a question mark? B. Genetic fallacy. Your statement assumes that the Right has some quality now because it had that quality ab origine. Of course, your factual position is also incorrect.
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Replying to @wellydog67 @salonium
The nationalist right, religious right and racist right still exist. Both sides have their tribalisms and denying this is less helpful than denouncing and marginalising them
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Replying to @HPluckrose @salonium
So you’ll have no problem supplying mainstream examples of Conservative racism. And you ought to know that nationalism is not only a position on the right.
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No, it's not mainstream. Most conservatives are reasonable people just as most leftists are. We both need to fight our lunatic fringes. I co-wrote this about it,https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ …
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