Opposition to LGBT equality & reproductive freedom seems pretty extreme to me even tho they are not really fringe conservative positions.
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So if you want to complain (rightly) about threats to freedom of speech & positive discrimination as extreme positions on the left...
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...but insist that only neo-nazis & the KKK fit the description of far-right, you might be grading on a rather conservatively-biased curve.
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It seems likely that everyone's definition of 'far' politics really means how far from their own position they are.
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So, centrists seem 'far' to those on the ends of the left/right spectrum.
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It's a giveaway, for me, to be called far-right. In that the responder is in fact, far-left.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
On all the regular pol quizes I have done, I come out slightly left of centre. It does not match the general pol environment.pic.twitter.com/dQCXkjhlDA
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Replying to @Igroki @HPluckrose
Economics is the major left/right chasm. Social issues, independent of economics, are not personally divisive. Far left numbers > far right.
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I found this to be a good partial explainer of why the far left is growing
@K_Niemietz https://capx.co/how-the-housing-crisis-has-created-a-generation-of-socialists/ …1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
The economic left is a very different thing tho.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @K_Niemietz
It is. I am happy to agree with your previous framework of 2 far lefts
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