[engi_nerd]

...Isn't one of the tropes of the left that you can't just reject the experiences of others offhand in such a manner? Maybe the parent has been run out of places when his views were known. Who are you to just reject that and say that's wrong?

[dragonwriter]

> ...Isn't one of the tropes of the left that you can't just reject the experiences of others offhand in such a manner?

The first paragraph, which appeared to be what was rejected, was a generalization, not a recounting of personal experience.

And, nothing in the post you responded to was any kind of rejection that violates any precept that is particularly common, AFAICT, on the left (it might, I suppose, violate a right-wing stereotype of the left, but, then, that's more a problem of the alignment of the stereotype with reality.)

[engi_nerd]

I am not sure how else to interpret a post wherein someone relates something personal and then the first sentence of the follow up tells them they're wrong.

[dragonwriter]

What was called wrong was the generalization about the left which started the post, not the personal experience offered after it. At least, the "unless..." which qualifies the statement about wrongness only makes any sense as a qualifier to a rejection of the generalization, not the specific personal experience story, so there is no other reasonable way to interpret the post.

[engi_nerd]

I have gone back and re-read that post again.

You are correct. I was wrong.

[vezzy-fnord]

I don't know, I'm not a leftist. Though what you seem to be describing are postmodernism and moral relativism, and I know plenty of left-wing people who reject both.

Again, the term "left" is useless without defining it first. I have no idea what the hell you actually mean when you say "left".