Forum Overview :: Balance of Power :: Also why do you think American leftists are self-loathing?

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]There's a transwoman who works at my local co-op grocery. I interact with her every couple weeks. And to the extent that it comes up, I use her preferred pronoun. When I do, I don't go home with my head hanging low saying, "I can't believe I treated that trans person with common courtesy. To see another person out of the closet and living their truth diminishes my own truth. How I loathe myself and my masculinity." Get your talking points straight, leftists are <I>smug</I> because of our moral superiority! As for the whole archaic definition of liberalism, you're putting the cart before the horse. I have policy goals I want enacted, those goals get labeled in the media as "liberal" but I don't care what you call them or me. You could call me a liberal, a leftist, a progressive, a social democrat, a Bernie Bro, or whatever as long as the policy I want gets enacted. Finding some pedantic way to attach the label "liberal" to Jordan Peterson isn't going to make me suddenly embrace his regressive views on women's sexual freedom out of some tribal loyalty to the label.[/quote]