silence7Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext | The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.
In a 2021 speech titled “The Universities Are the Enemy,” then–Senate candidate J. D. Vance declared that universities, as left-wing gatekeepers of truth and knowledge, “make it impossible for conservative ideas to ultimately carry the day.”
Yes - universities are by their very nature in opposition to irrational positions borne of ignorance, hatred, greed and fear.
That is as it should be.
It's always "liberal indoctrination" to them. Because they can't understand that being more exposed to more ideas tends to make you less conservative.
Also, it feels like a tacit admission that their own "education" was really indoctrination. That's probably one reason why they think all education is such.
Also, it feels like a tacit admission that their own "education" was really indoctrination. That's probably one reason why they think all education is such.
Knowledge is the cure to conservatism.
You cannot simultaneously hold right-wing views and know enough about the world to have any valid opinions about policy.
huppakeeI am not a right-wing voter and don’t consider myself a centrist, but discarding all right-wing views as faulty isn’t gonna help to bring about a healthy democratic conversation. I would argue it is in the benefit of everyone to make a distinction between extreme/far-right views and ‘regular’ right-wing views.
Knowledge is a cure for a lot of things, no argument there.
Right wing politics is ultimately about concentrating power in the hands of the aristocracy of the day or distracting the public whilst the former goal is furthered.
These goals are to the detriment of modern society and should be wholly resisted. The goals of modern society are to create the rising tide to lift all ships.
There is zero value in the right wing school of thought beyond the warning to not pursue it we all got ~80 years ago.
That’s like saying everything left is bad because look at how the Sovjets ended up
No, it’s just simply understanding the end goals of an ideology.
The soviets were authoritarians…
Ones with a terrible human rights record.
Like, even if you ignore everything except a left/right economic scale, their wealth inequality was insane. Most people had the same: nothing. And a few people had almost everything of value in the country.
That’s not communism, that’s an oligarchy. The only further right on an economic scale would be a single person owning everything.
Right wing politics is ultimately about concentrating power in the hands of the aristocracy
Disagree. It’s about enriching the self. It’s about stonewalling or reversing social power.
It results in aristocracy but poor right wingers are not driven by that goal.
It’s about enriching the self. It’s about stonewalling or reversing social power.
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The difference is how much one is able to “enrich” their self, is determined by how much they’re willing to crush others to elevate themselves. The ultimate conclusion is concentrated power.
We agree there. I’m highlighting that creating an aristocracy is a side effect, not a goal.
No.
Aristocracy is absolutely the goal. Rugged individualism is simply the most popular lie used to attain that goal.
Disagree.
The rugged individualism is what makes it popular, not the desire to be a serf.
but discarding all right-wing views as faulty isn’t gonna help to bring about a healthy democratic conversation
Name three that aren’t.