Geoffrey MillerVerified account

4/Tyler doesn't go into the actual content of the discussions on the right and left very much, but here is what I see. Economic issues have almost entirely disappeared. Intellectual discourse on both sides is now almost exclusively about racial and gender issues.

5/On the left, the drive to purge racism, sexism, etc. from American society is very strong, and most discourse concerns this drive - either decrying examples of racism/sexism, discussing institutions that maintain these -isms, or discussing how to effect change.

6/On the right, the consensus position seems to be that differences in racial outcomes are due to (probably innate) "group differences", and that innate differences also explain the persistence of (and justify) traditional gender roles.

7/But because people on the right are, generally, afraid to express this idea in public, they instead talk about the idea of free speech. Basically, to the right, "free speech" is a proxy for "the right to say races and sexes are inherently different without fear of censure."