Message from @Beemann

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2019-05-18 01:22:10 UTC  

I'm still not being given a good idea of what the far right specifically is, possibly because it's not a thing :^)

2019-05-18 01:24:02 UTC  

I guess it depends on what axis your working on. In the american sense its probably something like religious ancaps.

2019-05-18 01:24:31 UTC  

In the broader discussion it seems to be anything people don't like

2019-05-18 01:24:43 UTC  

But even working the axis where hitler is far right, the death by proportion is still less for the right.

2019-05-18 01:24:56 UTC  

Even Peterson essentially attributes racism to the list of right wing traits

2019-05-18 01:25:09 UTC  

As though socialist governments have never enacted ethnic purges

2019-05-18 01:25:35 UTC  

what about mugabe

2019-05-18 01:26:00 UTC  

What about the Holodomor, Chinese occupation of other ethnically distinct regions etc

2019-05-18 01:26:03 UTC  

oh i see what you were saying

2019-05-18 01:26:07 UTC  

Yeah

2019-05-18 01:26:11 UTC  

There's lots of examples

2019-05-18 01:26:13 UTC  

i misread what you said

2019-05-18 01:26:19 UTC  

S'all good I figured as much

2019-05-18 01:26:54 UTC  

I think in Peterson's case he's talking more about the European sense of right wing as in nationalism, and is basically saying no ethnonationalism

2019-05-18 01:27:25 UTC  

well he's canadian, maybe they use the european right and left instead of the american one

2019-05-18 01:27:40 UTC  

Would the Trotsky/Stalin divide be Left/Right then? Like this is where it breaks down

2019-05-18 01:28:21 UTC  

^What? Are we using the David Pakman scale now where stalin is right wing?

2019-05-18 01:28:51 UTC  

Trotsky/Stalin divide was Worldwide Communism vs Communism in One Nation

2019-05-18 01:29:02 UTC  

Which ended up being an empire mind you

2019-05-18 01:29:14 UTC  

But there's still a global/national divide

2019-05-18 01:29:30 UTC  

I'd argue both are left wing

2019-05-18 01:31:59 UTC  

so national communism versus global communism. That makes no sense because it leaves out a wide spectrum of other systems

2019-05-18 01:32:25 UTC  

Right I'm talking about this in terms of nationalism being "right wing"

2019-05-18 01:32:45 UTC  

I'm not convinced it is

2019-05-18 01:32:59 UTC  

I find issue is there is economic and cultural scale and mixing those two things makes it hard to put things on a scale

2019-05-18 01:33:11 UTC  

economics is easy

2019-05-18 01:37:07 UTC  

I don't think nationalism versus globalism can help define right or left. It dependent on what kind of nationalism and what kind of globalism. Like you could have national communism or national capitalism would you define those both as right wing? Also confusing things like religion. Are both Christians and Muslims right wing in america? What about black and white nationalists? They clearly choose different sides in the United states.

2019-05-18 01:39:24 UTC  

I think there's a minority/majority factor there

2019-05-18 01:45:27 UTC  

Do you think they classify white nationalist and black nationalist as opposite in south africa?

2019-05-18 01:47:16 UTC  

I think ultimately "right wing" is just "stuff X group doesn't like"

2019-05-18 01:48:02 UTC  

Going back to the nationalism thing: I know in hong kong right wing want more control by Beijing and left wing want more independence. In britain left wing want more control by europe and right want less.

2019-05-18 01:48:40 UTC  

maybe the way left wing people use it, but right wing people dont use it that way

2019-05-18 01:49:16 UTC  

I think right and left are specific to a country. That probably why its not that useful.

2019-05-18 02:01:45 UTC  

Even then. Richard Spencer is anti free markets, pro welfare state, anti conservative and "far right"

2019-05-18 02:04:11 UTC  

right i don't agree with that. hes really just a white SJW he believes the same except his oppression stack is inverted.

2019-05-18 02:04:51 UTC  

to me far right in the usa is a really religious ancap

2019-05-18 02:05:31 UTC  

and far left is a militant atheist communist

2019-05-18 02:06:06 UTC  

what's the axis in canada? french and english?

2019-05-18 02:11:06 UTC  

The axis in Canada is unions and gibs, neolob, and very very lightly conservative

2019-05-18 02:11:32 UTC  

But somehow people are convinced that the far right is still Richard Spencer

2019-05-18 02:18:19 UTC  

Richard Spencer liked Bernie