> Even if I concede that there are some on the left who fit your description, the whole point is that left/progressive political philosophy is fundamentally aspirational towards tolerance and inclusivity. Right/conservative political philosophy is fundamentally not.
I don't find this description of right vs. left accurate at all. Or perhaps more specifically I don't feel like the people I have interacted with "on the right" communicate a sense of "intolerance" or "exclusivity". Certainly not to the extent that I would generalize that as a group characteristic. Nor have I encountered more academic definitions that would choose to differentiate based on this metric.
I just read the Wikipedia article on left/right and found it completely out of sync with my internalized model. I wouldn't go as far to say it is 'wrong' but I certainly didn't find it as a useful description of what I've experienced.
So much of the divisiveness we see today seems to be predicated on entirely false understandings of the "other" and a complete lack of agreement on basic terms and concepts. Left/Right is just one example.
I don't find this description of right vs. left accurate at all. Or perhaps more specifically I don't feel like the people I have interacted with "on the right" communicate a sense of "intolerance" or "exclusivity". Certainly not to the extent that I would generalize that as a group characteristic. Nor have I encountered more academic definitions that would choose to differentiate based on this metric.
I just read the Wikipedia article on left/right and found it completely out of sync with my internalized model. I wouldn't go as far to say it is 'wrong' but I certainly didn't find it as a useful description of what I've experienced.
So much of the divisiveness we see today seems to be predicated on entirely false understandings of the "other" and a complete lack of agreement on basic terms and concepts. Left/Right is just one example.