Saying right or left never made much sense to me.
Because you don't understand the reasons why those terms exist in the first place...
You can be conservative and support lgbtq
This is actually true. But this would mean that those people are living with contradictions..
Its debatable. On one hand its a good place to bring random political subjects on the table, on the other, the fact that it is THE place to talk about politic makes it a conflictual place.
In reality, there should be at least two places (which is why I'm keeping "the woke place" alive. One for simple leftists, socialists, anarchist and communist and one for simple rightist, liberal/ultra liberal and conservative. This would help reduce the conflictuality. The problem is that there is not a lot of real leftists (and not just liberals who says they support lgbt+) on this forum and the rightist/liberals/centrist are mostly letting the conservatists speak here, which makes this thread an echo chamber for bigoted ideas.
This is why I try to create such an echo and why I ask the staff to authorize the politization of other places of discussion in order to reintegrate political reflexions in the places where they belongs, instead of letting bigots occupy the only place for it and thus allowing the rest of the forum to stay a place of toxicity incapable of questionning itself.
The lack of understanding for the politization of stories and discussions about stories by the right would therefore be balanced by more positive reflexions of leftists like me who understand the importance for the politization of diverse subject. This would gradually negates the ambiant toxicity of the forum bit by bit. This might also negate a bit the reputation of the trash enabling nature of the forum, but it would increase consequently its quality.
Unlike a few idiots here who think everything is black and white and don't know terms by definition, it ain't that simple. I'm not anti-capitalist which is right wing, but I think the private sector should be weakened, worker rights increased, and that housing shouldn't be a tradable community, all of which of leftist or even flat out socialist.
But you consider that its okay for people to display transphobia (that deem yourself to be "not transphobia" or "buzzwords"), you do not see the problem with people displaying bigoted and very problematic ideas here, you are against the politization of important subjects, the recognition of systemic issues and the reflexion about sexism and racism through the lens of the visions of pop culture fandom on their story, you believe in the all mighty "nuanced society" and you don't understand what is wrong with dogpillings or harrassments, sometimes even participating in it.
Those are the vision of someone who understands that there is problem in society, but refuses to question the system or themself: In my "idiot" book (nobody is fooled) . We call people like you "progressive liberals" (and I'm being kind). In short, the most leftists part of the right spectrum.
But hey... maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you just have a strong bias against me which makes you appear as really not endeering. Maybe you are actually the right of the leftist spectrum, let's see:
What do you think about the notion of meritocracy ?
just saying
