I mean that may be a fair assessment of some on the left, but surely that could be easily enough applied in the other direction, with only a few simple tweaks to the wording? And it's hardly a uniquely leftist issue to treat complex views as if they map to a spectrum!
Roger Scruton accurately describing how Twitter Tankies, and much of the Left, view people who do not accept all the standard left-wing shibboleths.pic.twitter.com/usPYHrndW1
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My view is that it's normal for left-wing intellectuals to think that people on the right are deeply immoral - bigoted in various ways, etc. I think it's rarer for conservative intellectuals to think that people on the left are deeply immoral.
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Many on the right subscribe to some form of natural law and do indeed belive that leftists are immoral for advocating a redistribution of wealth
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Hmmm. 1) Some on the right think this way; 2) I don't think it's true that conservatives of Scruton's ilk are just as likely to think their moderate opponents are evil as leftists (see how Twitter Tankies view centrists, for example).
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Agree about twitter tankies seeing those on the right and centre as evil. But are they not a small (but vocal) minority of leftists?
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Do you not think the student Left, for example, tends to think political moderation is indicative of moral failing? Difficult because it depends on what one means by left, centrist, right, moderate, etc - for example, conservatives can disagree fundamentally with neo-liberals.
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I'd agree that many do, but I think some on the right do indeed see centrism as moral failing in different respects depending on the kind of right wing view. On the right-nationalist side some view centrism as cowardice for not being more overt, or as nation-/race- treachery 1/
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Yes, I'm not talking about right nationalism - I think they are the mirror image of the Left (not in terms of their views, but in terms of the way they see the outgroup).
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Where is that? Book or article?
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It's in Fools, Frauds and Firebrands.
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Ah, thank you! (I think I’ve an ebook of that lying around on one HD or another, but have yet to read it).
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Would take an argument against the binary categorising of political differences more seriously, if it didn’t start with the sentence “Fundamental to the left’s thinking…”
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It's not an argument against the binary categorising of political differences at all...
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Think that’s implicit. “To the extent you’re not on the left, to that extent you’re on the right.”
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Walks behind the mirror and smiles, muttering "Fundamental to the right's way of thinking is the linear order implied in its name".
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People on the right are often like that too.
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Oddly, the so called "right" began systematically using the term 'left' to put all marginally rational opponents in a single category. As if this weren't a non-sequitur. Ironically, this 'left' now buys the silly predication and views them with unified unalloyed contempt.
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