[ExI] very informative

[Dave Sill]

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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