Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

[zorg1000]

curl-6 said:

zorg1000 said:

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.

Maybe it’s different where you are but in the US we literally have a right wing administration that is defunding universities and taking away student visas over protests about Gaza, sending the National Guard into cities because people are protesting ICE raids and suing television networks because they edited an interview or reported a story he doesn’t like. Because of that, any argument about freedom of speech being a right wing view is flat out laughable.

“The solution to discrimination is to stop discriminating” what exactly does this mean? Just sounds like a catch phrase without any substance. If women, minorities & LGBT people are being denied opportunities or having rights stripped away from them, how do you fix that? Also, please give me actual examples of white people or men being penalized for being white or male.