[ExI] very informative

[William Flynn Wallace]

Well Dave, I am just trying to find a group or groups I would find amenable
to my beliefs.  "What are you politically?" cannot be followed by pages and
pages on what I believe on scores of issues.  Yes, single words won't ever
fit.  As Spike's link to the Democrats' tent shows, there is a lot of
variation.  Whether there is too much to put a single label on I dunno.
Taking suggestions.   And  - there are no neutral parties.  All are
biased.   We just have to keep our BS detection always set at HIGH when
dealing with politics.  bill w

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 10:54 AM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 1:56 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> https://www.prageru.com/video/left-or-liberal/
>>
>> I simply did not know.  When liberals have been attacked I have defended
>> them.  But what I did not know was that it is not the ultraliberals who
>> came up with the ideas I fought - it was the Leftists.
>>
>> Very clear differences.  I am most definitely a liberal and not a Leftist.
>>
>
>  "Left" and "liberal" are labels. Prager is not a neutral party in the use
> or definition of these labels. Even with universally agreed upon
> definitions of the terms, which we don't have, a one-dimensional left/right
> or liberal/conservative spectrum is not sufficient to identify one's
> political beliefs to anything but the roughest approximation. We shouldn't
> use vague or misleading labels to identify our beliefs or attempt to apply
> labels to people that they don't agree with.
>
> Back in the Usenet days we used geek codes <
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek_Code> to summarize our
> interests/activities/beliefs/skills. Maybe we need something like that.
>
> -Dave
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