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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

I'm the kind of jerk who challenges unfounded assumptions and fuzzy logic wherever I see them. Right, left, doesn't matter to me.

I've gotten far more grief from those on radical left (usually on issues of identity politics) than I've gotten from conservatives. The radical left are anti-liberal at heart. They are hostile to the liberal (in the classical sense) values of skepticism, empiricism, and tolerance of the widest freedom of expression. And if you do challenge an irrational or unfounded statement by a social justice warrior, the only possible explanation in their mind is that you're a bigot, so any attempt at a rational discussion is quashed with the classic tactic of poisoning the well.

And I say that as someone whose beliefs on all of the core left/right issues falls in line with the left. Being an atheist in favor of gay marriage, gun control, pro-choice, and public health care hasn't stopped SJWs from leaping on me like the pack of hounds from Animal Farm when I demonstrate a troubling skepticism about some article of leftist dogma.

If SJW has become a slur, it's a well-earned one. Zealots have a way of turning on even those who should be their natural allies.

You're such an open minded curmudgeon you even believe that Left and Right actually exist and the political spectrum is a straight line!