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Is that necessarily a problem, though? Why should people's opinions conform to pre-existing paradigms of political alignment? If those paradigms are obsolete, we need new ones to describe what people think these days, don't we?
Yeah, sure. But don't you think it's at least important for people to understand where these divisions come from before we try to work past them? Besides, the current political climate is a result of that left/right binary: Don't think you would've had Thatcher's rise to power without there being socialist tendencies in the UK for her to challenge in the first place, for example.
I think that the idea that bigots are necessarily "right-wing" whereas open-minded people are necesarily "left-wing" is old hat and something of a distraction from the real issues.
Perhaps, but hasn't the left in the UK had more of a history of opposing bigotry and discrimination through movements like The Anti-nazi League or Rock Against Racism?
Yeah, sure. But don't you think it's at least important for people to understand where these divisions come from before we try to work past them? Besides, the current political climate is a result of that left/right binary: Don't think you would've had Thatcher's rise to power without there being socialist tendencies in the UK for her to challenge in the first place, for example.
I think that the idea that bigots are necessarily "right-wing" whereas open-minded people are necesarily "left-wing" is old hat and something of a distraction from the real issues.
Perhaps, but hasn't the left in the UK had more of a history of opposing bigotry and discrimination through movements like The Anti-nazi League or Rock Against Racism?