• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    To be fair what he’s described is at most Progressive. The left rejects the current economic model as a start. Workers owning the means of production instead of an owner class.

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        2 years ago

        Yup, my point is not that he isn’t an ally, it’s that being an ally isn’t inherently leftist.

        • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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          2 years ago

          I have a hard time finding a right wing or centrist ideology that gives a shit about minorities. So, while correlation doesn’t always imply causation, it usually does.

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            I think the whole left vs right thing is stupid.
            Individual views are much more complex than a single left/right axis, so you’re always going to find people on both sides who have views that differ greatly from the major political party on their ‘side’.

            A ‘progressive’ right winger would care more about preventing the government from deciding what you’re allowed to do, rather than explicitly protecting minorities.
            So while they wouldn’t push laws that require businesses to serve everybody indiscriminately, they also wouldn’t push laws that explicitly ban things like gender therapy.

            Obviously the majority of right wingers in america aren’t progressive though.