Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

[zorg1000]

curl-6 said:

zorg1000 said:

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.

The US is something of an outlier among the developed world because they have a hard right government at present.

If you treat people the same regardless of race or gender, then equality will arise naturally from the fact that no race or gender is actually superior.

Sure, but I also brought up examples of individuals, not the US government, employing cancel culture tactics about anything they perceive as “woke”, which by now just means “things I don’t like”. My point is free speech isn’t a left/right thing.

But again, what you’re saying sounds good in theory but it doesn’t actually address the issue and ignores that people aren’t treated the same. If the government doesn’t step in and help groups that are being discriminated against, who will? Pretending that racism, sexism & xenophobia don’t exist doesn’t help anything.

Also, you still haven’t given examples of white men being punished for being white men.