Something is leading to my being relentlessly exposed to these ideas: Meritocracy and individualism are far-right ideas. Licensed racial violence and censorship are moderate-left ideas. If those are our norms, then I have common cause with the far-right. Am I mistaken?
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I'm open to rebuttals or counterpoints, as I haven't adopted many right-wing policy positions or traditional conservative values.
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Replying to @averykimball
rebuttal: that is not what the far right believes, it is just a caricature produced by extremists on the left who are currently occupying a space they've managed to label "moderate center-left" despite evidence to the contrary.
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Replying to @danlistensto @averykimball
authoritarian culture warriors with a manichean worldview reductively label everyone not in lockstep with themselves as the most extreme polarized adversary to their own hyper-polarization. they have no idea what reality is. don't let their rhetoric rent space in your head.
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individualism is the basis of liberal democracy and pluralistic, tolerant societies. it's worth fighting to preserve. meritocracy is a shitty label for a complicated idea that identifies a fundamental truth: we are not all equals, some outperform others at specific tasks.
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in liberal democracy equality is a legal fiction meant to equalize us before the law, so government will be more fair (optimistically). it is a tragic mistake to think that equality is a doctrine of total sameness and lack of difference between individuals. we are not the same.
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