Those of us who consider ourselves liberal in the broadest sense of favouring equal rights, freedoms & opportunities must not allow social progress to be associated with the far-left any more than we should allow freedom of speech to be associated with the far-right.
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And identity politics is the logical outgrowth of the things modern liberals say they like: gay rights, diversity, feminism... So who is 'far left' and who is moderate? I find it hard to tell.
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No. Identity politics was a reaction against universal liberalism. Liberals like gay rights & women's rights but diversity is loaded and nearly always used to mean diversity of identity rather than ideas. Not a fan of this usage.
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So, do you not favour diversity of identity? And the idea that liberalism is universally applicable seems to me more radical than the idea that it isn't.
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Diversity of identity is neutral provided equality of opportunity exists. Universal liberalism simply means applying liberal principles consistently & not being culturally or tribally relative.
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Politics is relative. Things that work in one context might not work in another.
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Perhaps it's semantic, but I'm not sure what constitutes 'far left' or 'far right'. I'd consider liberalism, as a force in the last few centuries, to be radical and left-wing. Socialism is something else, and has often been more socially conservative than liberalism.
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Then you're simply missing the different branches on the left, Marxists/socialists, PoMos, liberals. The liberals and the radicals and the postmodernists draw on very different intellectual histories.
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