Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

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zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

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.

As I said, the alt right does employ cancel culture too, but in my experience the majority of it comes from the alt left, particularly in terms of weaponizing things like the legal system, HR, social media, and other institutions to silence opposing views.

Discrimination does exist, obviously, and there are and should be interventions against it, such as businesses not being allowed to say "no black people served here" or "we only hire men" or a school not being allowed to say only let in white students. Anti-discrimination laws exist in pretty much every Western nation, as they should.

An example in my view would be say quotas that insist on hiring a non-white person over a white person purely on the grounds of race, or on a less institutional level, just the pervasive "white people are evil, if you're white you're not allowed to have an opinion" attitude of the alt left.