Are you a leftist or a liberal? Dennis Prager's 32 questions

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Dennis Prager laid out 32 questions to determine whether you are a leftist or a liberal. I found it from Newsweek.

Personally I am a fiscal far-right and socially far-left and economic beliefs are very right-wing for the most part except I love labor unions and I believe in a living wage for full-time jobs.I would classify myself more of a classical liberal than a leftist.I believe that all alcohol,tobacco,energy drinks,drugs,prostituition,gamblirightng should be legal and deregulated and ultra-low taxed.However am a libertarian mostly not so much a conservative or liberal.However Dennis Prager would consider my beliefs about other things to be right-wing.Maybe I am liberal because I think sin taxes should be ultra low.

Here are my answers.

1. - No. Segregation is bad.

2. - This is found in a 2015 article from the Washington Post in which this quote is listed as an example of "microaggression". For me, the statement simply means that we shouldn't judge people based on skin color because we are all humans, and therefore, no one is a different type of species just because of their skin color.

3. - It is not racist to not focus on skin color. It is however racist to judge people because of their skin color.

4. - No!

5. - Only Americans that support KKK, reactionaries, fascists, Nazis, and nationalists.

6. - If they want to emigrate to America, they shouldn't be told not to just because they're not White. That counts as racism. However, it is acceptable to advise people not to move to America (not force them) with specific reasons such as racial discrimination, high student debt, expensive housing prices in California, and dangerous polarization between Democrats and Republicans.

7. - Any person is racist regardless of their race as long as they discriminate against others based on their skin color, cultural background, and religion.

8. - A ludicrous question. Music has nothing to do with race at all.

9. - "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave." does not ring racism at all but the ideal society where we are free of oppression (the anthem's lyrics do not make any references to races).

11. - Statement originates from 2016. The context behind is that traditionalists and reactionaries argue on how Audre Lorde isn't important as Shakespeare and that Shakespeare's portrait was replaced to satisfy progressive views of the students themselves. The progressives point out the cluelessness attributed to ignorance and state that Shakespeare is still alive and well at Penn. Clearly an attempt of gaining clout by racism and attempting to "prove liberals wrong".

12. - Slaves arrived after Jamestown was founded. Contemporary America that we know of came from a colony set by Englishmen that is Jamestown in 1607, 12 years prior to the arrival of slaves. The Revolutionary War was not fought to preserve slavery but was a colonial rebellion against the British colonial empire. At the time, liberal values were truly considered progressive. America would also display its progressiveness in 1860s when the Union proves itself the winner against the Confederacy and abolishing the slavery ultimately despite the persistent racism that would continue until the 1960s civil rights movements change it.

13. - It would be immoral to take down Abraham Lincoln who literally fought to abolish slavery of Afro-Americans in the United States.

14. - Any imperialist force, whether is it the US, Russia, China, Britain, or France, would not make the world any better as long as they enforce their mainstream global hegemony.

15. - America wasn't founded on Christian values. Despite the demographic of America being Christian, the constitution of the United States emphasizes on the liberal values, not Christian.

16. - Economically, capitalism is what makes America the "sole superpower". This is just economically, not socially because capitalism disregards social issues.

17. - Ban lobbying and "gerrymandering". If America is a free nation then why do we have to vote Democrat or Republican? Polarization is anti-democratic. So much for the "Land of the Free".

18. - No. I would personally not consider voting for Trump or Biden. There is no thing such as voting for a certain candidate that makes a person "good person". It is just plain pro-Trump propaganda that Prager is laying down.

19. - I believe that liberals and conservatives in America are both on the right. The Democrats are less extreme than Republicans but the Democrats are certainly not "leftist" as many paranoid MAGA Republicans claim so.

20. - Maybe? But then wouldn't that also impact people like me who come to visit America only to get checked for hours? Reminds me of that meme video with a list of ethnic groups under surveillance in America. I forgot the name of it.

21. - They should be treated fairly and be given a path to citizenship by being provided adequate supplies and equipment for integration and not assimilation. This is something that Sweden failed to do so despite Sweden faring better in welfare than America.

22. - Any person who enters another nation without documents is "undocumented" or "illegal".

23. - Police shouldn't be "defunded" but reformed based on the people's interests but also provide basic security.

24. - Better than forcing them to attend certain schools if some don't provide adequate education. Just make sure that the government is providing the adequate vouchers.

25. - Logically a "Gun-free zone" school because less security. But since this quiz has bias towards pro-gun ownership then it is clear that if they don't want an army guard in the school then restrict the gun ownership to the army and police only and not basic citizens. America has enough guns to reload their entire US army and police force dozens of times.

26. - Giving surgeries to underaged people in general is not a good idea due to their bodies being underdeveloped. I prefer the age of 18 in which most of the body (except the brain) is developed.

27. - Well in my school, they call us "students" and "boys and girls", so I don't see a major issue with it.

28. - Certainly not. Why women who identify as men don't compete in men's sports is because they would easily be won over. So there have to be certain fair standards to prevent fraudsters from entering women's sports and causing major sports scandals. However, these questions are often attempts of trying to make people transphobic. I only disagree with this not because I am a transphobe but because there is logical reasoning to it. Dennis Prager is a reactionary!

29. - No. Men cannot be born with uterus. Men can get a uterus artificially but I have never met a man who was "born with a uterus". As a man myself, I don't like having a uterus. I am more comfortable with a woman having that since my mother made me, not my father.

30. - Seeing how America deviates completely from "Love and Acceptance" I would consider waiting until they prove themselves worthy to communism and not engage in sexual deviance that may be uncomfortable for others.

31. - Free speech allows hate speech but free speech allows us also to fight hate speech!

32. - We, the people do that.

1. P3N15 Prager is full of s**t.
2. Liberal or leftist, it doesn't matter. The far right is going to mass murder the entire democratic party just as soon as Q or Trump or whoever gives them the ok.

Dennis Prager is known to be an Authoritarian and Christian Nationalist. I wouldn't trust any quiz he promotes.

Prager typically presents political positions and human rights issues he doesn’t like in an extreme way to discredit them when, in actuality, very few people in that demographic would endorse the extremism he claims is representative. He’s a dishonest and manipulative propagandist.

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People are being so mean to Dennis Prager. I think he makes a lot of good points:


Ain't it cute watching conservatives try to co-opt "liberal" and apply it to the Glorious Founders of Glorious Nation so they can sound educated and tolerant and forward-thinking even as they have the exact same conservative beliefs they had when they called "liberals" stupid America-haters.
To be fair, many "liberals" want to be called as such because they hate "leftists" for not being nationalist-capitalist enough. They want to be seen as tolerant, but not TOO tolerant. They want to be seen as caring about the less fortunate, but not TOO much.

I presume that list of loaded questions doesn't allow for an essay in reply to each of them, so all I could do would be to answer "don't know" to most of them, which would look wishy-washy to some. Doesn't really capture my attitude, which I think is quite left-wing, unbigoted, and thoughtful, at least to a degree.

I'm suspicious of forced-response questionnaires. Most of their advantages are about making data collection quick and cheap, and Dennis doesn't seem very interested in that. He seems to be trying to convince people of something else: "America, in serious jeopardy of being lost, will be saved when people convince the liberals in their life that the left, not the conservative, is their enemy." I have serious doubts about the veracity of that statement.

If I could be bothered to answer those 32 questions, they'd mostly be long, nuanced, and carefully-researched. Hence my reluctance to get started. I haven't got all night. But I'll answer one of the less loaded ones as a goodwill gesture:

15. Would America be better, worse, or the same as now if all Americans dropped their religion and became secular?
Hard to say for sure, but offhand I wouldn't expect a lot of difference. There are other countries less religious than the USA but they don't seem worse for it, and some seem better, though it's not safe to compare different countries like that. A compassionate religionist would likely remain compassionate, and a religious bastard would likely remain a bastard, I would think. But it may also depend on what their religion was and why they gave it up. Don't quote me as answering "the same." I don't think anybody knows the answer.

My gut tells me that Dennis is doing harm and is good at twisting words. So if there wasn't much time to think and I could press a button to shut him up, I think I'd press it.

The Newsweek article provides no scoring method by which a person may be classified as a Leftist or a Liberal.  Thus, there is no way to determine if a person is a Leftist or a Liberal from their answers to Dennis Prager's quiz.

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