Yes, 'Far'ness tends to do that. Far-right aren't making conservatives look great either. There are two far-lefts: economic & identitarian https://twitter.com/ByDogHazDohDoze/status/825859879093071872 …
It comes from a different part of the left. It comes from the drive for equality & to resist socially conservative norms.
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There are two, maybe more versions: 1 is that of US campus culture, which is insane, getting worse, and has provoked an extreme>
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response. Our versions milder. We always seem to take the worst of US excess - the land that gave us neocons. >
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We've largely eschewed the insanity of safe spaces and trigger warnings and distilled it down into a kind of new Fabianism, in>
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which well-to-do social reformers police the morals and lifestyles of the unruly masses. Don't eat that, or drink that, or say >
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the other. The nanny state, with which this illiberal 'left' conspire. Not opposing the state, but doing its work. This is not>
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left-wing. Theres not even a coherent ideology behind it, and in that sense - again - its not even political. Its just >
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middle-class moralising write large, in the long UK tradition of policing the masses, and I can't get on board. Brexit was a >
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glorious revolt against it all, the best day in recent UK political history. Enjoy work. :D
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