Sorry, guys, I'm going on. It's been a while, I'm pent up!
Anyway, Rakuen, you do keep saying you're non-partisan, and I honestly believe you honestly believe that, but, you know, un-self aware. I'm sorry, but, we've gone over this, but I do pay attention to you, and your views are pretty consistent. In fact, ironically, it's more consistent than your defense of free speech; okay, Ike the Dragon was a right wing troll (which may not help my main argument), but you did kind of throw him under the bus, and didn't ever really do a good job of explaining why. You've got your excuses to yourself in your head, but I never bought'em.
Setting aside that the whole "free speech forever!" thing being more or less a right wing fetish to begin with, there's your whole "cancel culture is only a left wing problem" assertions. I mean, setting aside if "cancel culture" is even a thing, and what that thing is if it is a thing, it wasn't a wholly left wing thing when you were asserting this. I mean, you've apparently never heard of the what happened to the Dixie Chicks or "Old Town Road" being taken off American country and western stations for no real reason other than the singer was black and gay, but, you know what, honestly, I would just feign ignorance of American country and western music. It's not that good. But there's no excuse for not being aware of the James Gunn thing. That was covered on Flayrah.
And now that right wingers are "cancelling" Maus and the things in this article and books written by black authors because they're "critical race theory" and it's very clear that "cancelling" was, like you think you are, never partisan to begin with, you've kinda been quiet on the subject. I mean, maybe that's what this whole thing is about. You've been beating the "cancel culture is leftist" drum so long, it's hard not to be a bit bitter about it now that you have to eat crow.
You also have made multiple Tweets and comments saying that cultural misappropriation is not a thing. Very right wing of you. You're assertation is that it helps everyone, both the appropriators and appropriated, equally. Perhaps, all things being equal, appropriation would be an unadulterated good. Unfortunately, we live in the real world, and things aren't equal, and you have situations of dubious consent (if even that much) between entities of unequal levels of power.
To be fair to you, you seem to have major issues understanding concerns about dubious consent between entities of unequal levels of power in other scenarios, so I guess that is fairly consistent.
But, you know what, that's beside the point. Whether I'm correct, and cultural misappropriation is bad, or you're correct, and it's good, you have taken the right wing position. That's the takeaway, here.
Similarly, there's your views on pushes for diversity. Once again, you seem to think this is unnecessary, i.e. the right wing take. I'll try not to argue this one, because we'll get bogged down in that shit when the point is, once again, consistency in your viewpoints, not whether or not you're right or wrong. (You're wrong, though.)
I could point out your rather evangelical take on atheism and "science" is consistent with the rather evangelical takes on atheism of known right wing opinion makers. Even your belief that being "non-partisan" is a "good thing" is, in and of itself, both "partisan" and, according to some arguments, right-wing! One possible way to explain (and, admittedly, oversimplify) the difference between "liberalism" and "conservatism" is that liberalism wants to change the way things are while "conservatism" wants things to return to a former state. Centrism, then, argues for the status quo, i.e. the enemy of change, or "liberalism".
Just because you wish labels of "right" and "left" don't apply to you does not mean they don't. And, in fact, your desire to be seen as not taking a side has, in my opinion, obscured your ability to accurately assess which side has most affected your worldview.
At this point, I'm less concerned with the fact that you may be "conservative" and more concerned with the fact that you may be "conservative" ... and not know it. Once again, dude, just own it!
Sorry, guys, I'm going on. It's been a while, I'm pent up!
Anyway, Rakuen, you do keep saying you're non-partisan, and I honestly believe you honestly believe that, but, you know, un-self aware. I'm sorry, but, we've gone over this, but I do pay attention to you, and your views are pretty consistent. In fact, ironically, it's more consistent than your defense of free speech; okay, Ike the Dragon was a right wing troll (which may not help my main argument), but you did kind of throw him under the bus, and didn't ever really do a good job of explaining why. You've got your excuses to yourself in your head, but I never bought'em.
Setting aside that the whole "free speech forever!" thing being more or less a right wing fetish to begin with, there's your whole "cancel culture is only a left wing problem" assertions. I mean, setting aside if "cancel culture" is even a thing, and what that thing is if it is a thing, it wasn't a wholly left wing thing when you were asserting this. I mean, you've apparently never heard of the what happened to the Dixie Chicks or "Old Town Road" being taken off American country and western stations for no real reason other than the singer was black and gay, but, you know what, honestly, I would just feign ignorance of American country and western music. It's not that good. But there's no excuse for not being aware of the James Gunn thing. That was covered on Flayrah.
And now that right wingers are "cancelling" Maus and the things in this article and books written by black authors because they're "critical race theory" and it's very clear that "cancelling" was, like you think you are, never partisan to begin with, you've kinda been quiet on the subject. I mean, maybe that's what this whole thing is about. You've been beating the "cancel culture is leftist" drum so long, it's hard not to be a bit bitter about it now that you have to eat crow.
You also have made multiple Tweets and comments saying that cultural misappropriation is not a thing. Very right wing of you. You're assertation is that it helps everyone, both the appropriators and appropriated, equally. Perhaps, all things being equal, appropriation would be an unadulterated good. Unfortunately, we live in the real world, and things aren't equal, and you have situations of dubious consent (if even that much) between entities of unequal levels of power.
To be fair to you, you seem to have major issues understanding concerns about dubious consent between entities of unequal levels of power in other scenarios, so I guess that is fairly consistent.
But, you know what, that's beside the point. Whether I'm correct, and cultural misappropriation is bad, or you're correct, and it's good, you have taken the right wing position. That's the takeaway, here.
Similarly, there's your views on pushes for diversity. Once again, you seem to think this is unnecessary, i.e. the right wing take. I'll try not to argue this one, because we'll get bogged down in that shit when the point is, once again, consistency in your viewpoints, not whether or not you're right or wrong. (You're wrong, though.)
I could point out your rather evangelical take on atheism and "science" is consistent with the rather evangelical takes on atheism of known right wing opinion makers. Even your belief that being "non-partisan" is a "good thing" is, in and of itself, both "partisan" and, according to some arguments, right-wing! One possible way to explain (and, admittedly, oversimplify) the difference between "liberalism" and "conservatism" is that liberalism wants to change the way things are while "conservatism" wants things to return to a former state. Centrism, then, argues for the status quo, i.e. the enemy of change, or "liberalism".
Just because you wish labels of "right" and "left" don't apply to you does not mean they don't. And, in fact, your desire to be seen as not taking a side has, in my opinion, obscured your ability to accurately assess which side has most affected your worldview.
At this point, I'm less concerned with the fact that you may be "conservative" and more concerned with the fact that you may be "conservative" ... and not know it. Once again, dude, just own it!