Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

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zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

I guess I would sort of call myself a centrist, in the sense that I lean left on some issues and right on others, and find that there's a lot of off-putting extremism on both sides these days.

I'm left on maybe 70% or so of issues; I support equal rights under the law, protecting the environment, universal healthcare, gun control, a robust welfare safety net, unions, and such like.

On the right side, I support freedom of speech even if it offends, I oppose mass immigration, I don't believe in penalizing groups like say men or white people today cos bad things happened in the past, and I'm against affirmative action and other such programs as I believe people should be treated equally. 

A couple things about your right side examples. Is freedom of speech a right wing view? I don’t think the right gets to claim that after the current administration has defunded universities, deported students and sued networks. The right likes to complain about cancel culture but are just as bad about it, boycotting Carhartt during the pandemic for having mask mandates for employees, boycotting Bud Light for having a trans person in an advertisement, boycotting M&Ms because the female M&M started wearing sneakers instead of “sexy” boots, boycotting The Little Mermaid because “mermaids aren’t black!”……the list goes on.

Also, as a straight, white man, I’ve never once felt penalized for being any of those things. Things like affirmative action were put in place because women, minorities & LGBT people weren’t getting equal treatment. Even with policies and programs to help, these groups are still statistically more likely to be denied things like employment, wages, housing, loans, higher education, etc. Policies helping certain groups of people=/=other groups are being punished.

The alt right engages in cancel culture too, absolutely, nowadays though I find most of the restrictions on expression come from the alt left.

I simply believe people should be treated equally regardless of things like race or gender; the solution to discrimination is to stop discriminating.