• @Maggoty
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    39 hours ago

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

    • rockerface 🇺🇦
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      36 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 hour ago

        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.