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There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power

www.salon.com There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power

From Burke to Buckley to Patrick Deneen, we've seen a 200-year history of defending the indefensible

Commentary: Longtime former Republican on Patrick Deneen and the demise of the conservative intellectual

politics @lemmy.world

There's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing power

www.salon.com /2023/07/01/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-conservative-intellectual--only-apologists-for-right-wing-power/

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I was hoping this politics community would be reasonable and have good discussion.
instead we just get more of r/politics
Social media perpetuating identity politics then acting confused when there's such a big divide in this country.
- https://www.vox.com/2015/1/29/7945119/all-politics-is-identity-politics
- I liked r/politics. My political identity is enlightened centrist.
- Nah lemmy is even further left than Reddit. What would you expect from an anti corporate decentralized group. Lemmy is basically communism of social media.
  You are either a far left echo chamber member here or human trash. They see no difference.
  
  Your comment implies we're all assholes on here, then you're surprised people aren't treating you with respect 🤔
  
  Not assholes. Just you are almost all part of the same echo chamber and have very similar beliefs and values and those without those values are shunned because the majority rule on lemmy is far left.
  
  At base, it is about how you treat people. That is the issue, no more. GOP and rightwingers intend to harm, limit, exclude people for unilateral reasons. The rest of us want to be left alone, and leave others alone, to varying degrees, and yeah some of us, like me, radically so, to let people decide for themselves how to live.
  There are and have been plenty of people we'd describe as "conservative" at some point but who work towards collective and individual freedoms.
  Not fucking one of them is a republican today. NAME ONE.
  And fuck you weasels trying to twist words into lessening the impact of right wing extremists.
  There are not "two sides". There are extremists, a minority, then the rest of us.
  The problem is the minority has the money and the power to expand.
  
  Who is 'the rest of us'?
  
  I wouldn’t say human trash, more like deplorable

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