funeralxempire wrote:
ironpony wrote:
Well this why I don't understand why so many people choose to pick a side in politics, because both the right and left side, have so many specific beliefs that it feels very arbitruary. For example, why does being pro-choice and defunding the police have to do with one another and why they are related? Just because the left says so?
I'm not sure the left says those causes are related even if they're both causes that are more likely to be supported by left-leaning individuals. Who said it and by what authority do they speak for the left?
It might be nothing more than that people who support women's rights typically also are sympathetic the concerns of other groups of people as well.
Oh well it just seems strange that the left would hold all these specific beliefs, in order to considered one of the left, because some of these beliefs not only seem unrelated, but also contradictory. For example the left wants to defund the police, but they are also for gun control. But if they get their wish and cannot buy guns, then how they are going to defend themselves, if ther are no police to help defend them?
Just doesn't make sense to me why some of the beliefs seem contradictory like that, and if you want to be left, do you have to believe in both, even if it means you are contradicting yourself?
27 Mar 2021, 12:36 am
