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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
We're so accustomed to media echo-chambers that people can't get their heads around the idea of genuinely diverse guests and topics. You aren't tainted with sin just because you have a right-leaning guest or provocateur on your show.
And pretty much all of the 'intellectual dark web' people are pro-evolution, pro-recreational drug use, pro-gun control, etc. I honestly don't get why the label conservative gets slapped on them. Are we really so far gone that whether you subscribe to identity politics is the one true barometer of whether someone is left or right?
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I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Unfortunately the Western political system defines what is right/left by what the parties, often arbitrarily, support. So where you stand on random issues like political correctness, the middle eastern debate, feminism, white privilege, etc.. Will often define you as either left or right. The definition of what is liberal also seems to constantly fluctuate between taking away and giving individual rights. I agree it's a ridiculous system.