Never having to lie about their beliefs or present ideas they disagree with stops leftists from ever becoming critical thinkers.

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[–]SoylentCapitalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

If you're left wing, then you will never experience this.

This would be false for me, but I understand what you mean as in the vast majority won't. Arguing for both points from the right and left showed me the right is right about many more things but not when it comes to ethics subjectively, and arguably objectively in certain cases (In university for instance related to a philosophy course, but I took it upon myself to argue certain points without upsetting the status quo too much) and what to do with the difficult truths of reality.

Back to the original statement though, saying that this alone stops them from becoming critical thinkers is false because critical thinking is still required to get almost any PhD. It's better said critical thinking related to race and politics is something that becomes non-existent.

[–]WaltzRoommate[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

When you argued for a right wing point, did you argue for something authentically right wing such as race realism or did you argue that taxes were too high?

[–]SoylentCapitalist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I steered clear of race specifically but mentioned some quotes from Nietzsche such as how not all men are created equal.

[–]WaltzRoommate[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Okay, so then my post stands. You didn't argue anything dissident or especially right wing. Moreover, you chose a very safe citation rather than something scientific, which would actually have shown some commitment and challenged their worldview.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Stating that not all humans are equal is pretty dissident under the current dispensation though.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not, that's very much within the accepted framework, especially when you're shitting on poorer (white) people. It's only dissent if applied across racial or national lines.

[–]WaltzRoommate[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not really.

Only stating that groups of humans are not equal on average is dissident. Everyone gets that someone will be smarter or stronger than someone else.