False dichotomy. Those are all bullshit choices to force us to choose the “lesser” evil in our opinion. That is why I don’t identify as “right,” only that the other side would classify me as right. Right and left mean different things to everyone it seems, rendering it completely meaningless at this point, much the same as the overused term “racism.”
While that is the historical origin of the dichotomy, we don’t have a French Revolutionary Parliament. It seems every little thing now is “right” or “left.” Even getting a vaccine or wearing a mask are no politicized and box people into categories. It’s ridiculous and I think it further divides us into classes. There is power in language, and continuing with the left right verbiage distracts from what we really mean and stand for. To “the left,” everything right is racist, xenophobic, and ultra-religious Christian, but to someone that considers themselves on the right, they are not necessarily any of those things. The terms are too charged at this point and end conversations before they can begin.
We need to take back the narrative and reframe it as pro-liberty and anti-liberty. One side wants to regulate, tax, and ban everything, and the other wants people to make decisions that are best for them.
False dichotomy. Those are all bullshit choices to force us to choose the “lesser” evil in our opinion. That is why I don’t identify as “right,” only that the other side would classify me as right. Right and left mean different things to everyone it seems, rendering it completely meaningless at this point, much the same as the overused term “racism.”
Also, why is this nonsense stickied?
While that is the historical origin of the dichotomy, we don’t have a French Revolutionary Parliament. It seems every little thing now is “right” or “left.” Even getting a vaccine or wearing a mask are no politicized and box people into categories. It’s ridiculous and I think it further divides us into classes. There is power in language, and continuing with the left right verbiage distracts from what we really mean and stand for. To “the left,” everything right is racist, xenophobic, and ultra-religious Christian, but to someone that considers themselves on the right, they are not necessarily any of those things. The terms are too charged at this point and end conversations before they can begin.
We need to take back the narrative and reframe it as pro-liberty and anti-liberty. One side wants to regulate, tax, and ban everything, and the other wants people to make decisions that are best for them.