Seven ways in which the left is now the right
Seven ways in which the left is now the right Noah Carl Wokeness, as I’ve noted before , is distinct from other strands of leftism, such as old-school Marxism or traditional left-liberalism. (Which is an important reason why the term ‘woke’ ought to be retained.) One major way it’s distinct from those other strands is that it has adopted many ideas that are fundamentally right-wing or conservative. This is something of a paradox, given that many of the woke are so intolerant of the other side they aren’t even willing to have conservatives as friends. In any case, here are seven ideas that used to be right-wing but are now left-wing. 1. Adopting things from other cultures is bad People on the right tend to be more ingroup oriented those than on the left. Indeed, believing that you belong to a certain group with a culture worth preserving is one of the hallmarks of conservatism. Unlike leftists, conservatives want to...