Question for all the right wingers on here

[Wales-Bales]

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Tut Tut!

That score is mainstream social democratic, as well you know, Comrade.

Now, what’s your slogan?

I have an exceptionally balanced mindset :-)

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[JamesWales]

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I've been doing this on and off for many years. I don't think the questions have changed and they are a bit, umm questionable, especially where they place political parties which simply don't align with the questions.

Nonetheless;

Economic Left/Right: -2.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

[+ the native hipster]

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And all that jazz

yeaaaay lap dog's back

[Alan Lung]

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yeaaaay lap dog's back

Twat

[+ the native hipster]

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Twat

the left

[Wash DC Blue]

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If you mean that a move towards more tolerance for and of some minorities is solely down to the left, then I'd agree that there has been an increase in its influence in the last fifteen years. I think that's a good thing actually, don't you?

The Daily Mail and other unashamedly right wing sections of the media used to drone on about "political correctness gone mad" thirty and forty years ago as they railed against the EU and all that has happened in the intervening years is that political correctness gone mad has gradually been replaced by "anti woke" which, in some places at least, carries more sinister undertones. However, it is essentially the right whingeing against developments taking place at the time - the difference this time is that whereas political correctness gone mad was a fairly loose and harmless term, anti woke has become more mainstream and generally accepted because of the rightward swing of the pendulum I mentioned in a previous post.

As for your list of examples of the "enormous rise in the left's influence", I've never heard of claims that Maths and the Countryside are racist - are they part of any left wing party's official policy? You mention "articles", are they written by people in a position to affect the policy of Governments or are they just opinion pieces? Outlandish articles on the left and right have been written for decades, if not centuries, but shouldn't be taken for policy.

Your second and third examples are essentially the same thing. I'm not looking to excuse some of the excesses of a proportion of those on the left when it comes to how they view immigration, but I would say that they hear some of the anti minority views of the likes of Orban and Erdogan and want to show their opposition to such opinions. Add in the number of countries where the nationalist right are closer to forming a Government than at any time since the Second World War and the left will want to present another side to the argument against thinking which is diametrically opposed to their own. The fact that these right wing, often far right wing, parties are on the rise is proof of the swing to the populist right which has been going on for at least a decade, but I maintain has its roots in the 2008 financial crisis.

Again, I'm not sure what you mean by your fourth point, but I suspect climate change is involved somewhere in it, so I'll just post this link for someone out of the usual suspects on here to tell us the experts and scientists have got it wrong and they know better

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o

We live in a time where the elite which is actually trying to control the American Government for the next four years are deciding that there is no longer any need for fact checking - more evidence of the ever rightward direction of your pendulum.

In my last post…I drew a distinction between power and the rise of the left culturally.
I’d like to stick to that if you don’t mind as you know that the last 14 years in the UK has had a terrible effect on the UK and 12 years out of the last 16 have been Democrat run.
I acknowledge that it was hardly Bernie Sanders…but the cultural shift has been significant over this period despite who has held office.

First off, I believe that everybody of a right mind deplores bigotry.
There are caveats though, and I think that these caveats are important regardless if they cross some people sensibilities.

There is one thing being tolerant and another with the tail wagging the dog.
I think that the UK has bent over backwards to accommodate minorities and frankly it has been a disaster.
You might not like it or agree with me…but here are my thoughts.

There are between 30 and 85 Sharia Councils in the UK.
Should there be any at all?
If so why?
The last General Election gave us several MP’s voted in primarily from Islamic wards.

Regardless of what is happening in the Middle East. It is my opinion that Islam is massively dangerous and there is an exponential growth in the UK.
Any comparison with Christianity in my opinion is whataboutism at best and incredibly naive at worst.
It’s a horrifically conservative ideology or theology that people like Christopher Hitchens warned about before he died.

It’s easy to pick on Christians in this new wave of atheism but hardly anyone has the stones to throw stones at Islam.

The Daily Mail. I don’t read it.
It’s as divisive and hyperbolic as The Guardian.
I used to get the Washington Post delivered daily. I don’t read that anymore and would certainly never get the Washington Times.

The Racial Maths and Countryside appeared on the BBC as well as other well established media outlets like the WSJ.
It’s absolute horse piss…but published nonetheless. Again we are not discussing if this is promoted by a government…rather than established institutions that have have succumbed to “right think” (right as in correct, here).

I’ve been working on this reply for about 25 minutes and getting “interrupted” by my Wife :)

Let’s whittle it down to a few questions and answers.
I can’t see us agreeing on something’s.
Some we may.
Long worded paragraphs aren’t the way for me to do it right now.
Nuance is a thing of the past anyway.

[the other bob wilson]

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In my last post…I drew a distinction between power and the rise of the left culturally.
I’d like to stick to that if you don’t mind as you know that the last 14 years in the UK has had a terrible effect on the UK and 12 years out of the last 16 have been Democrat run.
I acknowledge that it was hardly Bernie Sanders…but the cultural shift has been significant over this period despite who has held office.

First off, I believe that everybody of a right mind deplores bigotry.
There are caveats though, and I think that these caveats are important regardless if they cross some people sensibilities.

There is one thing being tolerant and another with the tail wagging the dog.
I think that the UK has bent over backwards to accommodate minorities and frankly it has been a disaster.
You might not like it or agree with me…but here are my thoughts.

There are between 30 and 85 Sharia Councils in the UK.
Should there be any at all?
If so why?
The last General Election gave us several MP’s voted in primarily from Islamic wards.

Regardless of what is happening in the Middle East. It is my opinion that Islam is massively dangerous and there is an exponential growth in the UK.
Any comparison with Christianity in my opinion is whataboutism at best and incredibly naive at worst.
It’s a horrifically conservative ideology or theology that people like Christopher Hitchens warned about before he died.

It’s easy to pick on Christians in this new wave of atheism but hardly anyone has the stones to throw stones at Islam.

The Daily Mail. I don’t read it.
It’s as divisive and hyperbolic as The Guardian.
I used to get the Washington Post delivered daily. I don’t read that anymore and would certainly never get the Washington Times.

The Racial Maths and Countryside appeared on the BBC as well as other well established media outlets like the WSJ.
It’s absolute horse piss…but published nonetheless. Again we are not discussing if this is promoted by a government…rather than established institutions that have have succumbed to “right think” (right as in correct, here).

I’ve been working on this reply for about 25 minutes and getting “interrupted” by my Wife :)

Let’s whittle it down to a few questions and answers.
I can’t see us agreeing on something’s.
Some we may.
Long worded paragraphs aren’t the way for me to do it right now.
Nuance is a thing of the past anyway.

I agree that there is little point in continuing this discussion as we're not going to change each others mind. I also agree with your last sentence , but cannot be too critical of anyone showing a lack of nuance when it's something which I've become increasingly guilty of. However, I'll finish by asking don't your comments on Islam lack that nuance as well?

[JamesWales]

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I think that's a fair point from Bob. We cant talk about Islam, we have to talk about radical or extreme opinions within Islam (and other religions or political or cultural groups). There's valid questions on that, on integration and whether we have allowed radical opinions to grow unchallenged somewhat though. In my opinion anyway.

[Wash DC Blue]

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I agree that there is little point in continuing this discussion as we're not going to change each others mind. I also agree with your last sentence , but cannot be too critical of anyone showing a lack of nuance when it's something which I've become increasingly guilty of. However, I'll finish by asking don't your comments on Islam lack that nuance as well?

I think that they probably do Bob.
On that note, I think that I’m going to keep to the football from now on.
That’s stressful enough as it is :)

[the other bob wilson]

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I think that they probably do Bob.
On that note, I think that I’m going to keep to the football from now on.
That’s stressful enough as it is :)

[the other bob wilson]

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I think that's a fair point from Bob. We cant talk about Islam, we have to talk about radical or extreme opinions within Islam (and other religions or political or cultural groups). There's valid questions on that, on integration and whether we have allowed radical opinions to grow unchallenged somewhat though. In my opinion anyway.

Agreed.

[ninian opinian]

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Agreed.

Agreed here too and that’s a first.

[Elwood Blues]

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Agreed.

I don't belieeeeeve it!

James,TOBW and Ninian Opinion all agree on something!

So do I incidentally.

Perhaps we should form our own party.

We couldn't do a worse than the deadwood who rule us now and the other lot of deadwood who were in for the previous 14 years.

Naming no names of course!

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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do you mean ,why don't i want communism ?

No. Completely different thing.

[JamesWales]

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I don't belieeeeeve it!

James,TOBW and Ninian Opinion all agree on something!

So do I incidentally.

Perhaps we should form our own party.

We couldn't do a worse than the deadwood who rule us now and the other lot of deadwood who were in for the previous 14 years.

Naming no names of course!

There will be a tonne of stuff we all agree on..probably just the boring or undisputed things that aren't worthy of discussion. There is also far more common ground when people sensibly discuss things in purpose.

I'm sure Bob and Ninian also agree that the death penalty is wrong, that the war in the middle east needs to end as soon as possible and that Farage has all the answers for example ;)