It does, believe it or not. In fact, 75% of students being against banning books implies the other 25% is either accepting or endorsing censorship. One in four is pretty significant.
It doesn’t take a majority of a population to get changes made, just a persistent and vocal minority.
But please, do go on about my narrative. Especially when you come to this thread with narratives like “The "extreme left" is not even a fraction as represented as even far right within popular consciousness and, more significantly, political representation.”
Which is farcical when you look at how mainstream and accepted ideas from the left are in the culture of the west. Unless you shift the definitions of what far-left and far-right are.
> Which is farcical when you look at how mainstream and accepted ideas from the left are in the culture of the west. Unless you shift the definitions of what far-left and far-right are
OK. Far right idea are built on a simple idea. We (our group, nationalist, cultural, religious) are inherently better than the others. This can be proven by Y[0]. But right now, we are feeling inferior to (our neighbours, elites, educated people, [1]). The only rationnal explanation is that (the liberals/the communists/the jew/the illuminati/the deep state) are plotting against us from within. Once those are purged, we will get our rightfull place in the world.
Far left: A class war exist. this can be proven because X[2]. The non-essential properties should be communal. The mean of production should be owned and paid for by the men and women who work them. The undemocratic republic is a tool for the bourgeoisie to keep people content with an illusion of choice and power. Police and armed forces are the other tools of the bourgeoisie to protect their property more than to protect lives[3]. The bourgeoisie must be purged for the working class to thrive again.
I think both are pretty prevalent, one we talk much more about the former than about the later.
Do you think i misrepresented one part? If so, don't hesitate to correct me.
[0] often a racist sentence, hence its often left to the auditor understanding
[1] French, Jews, Africans, mediterranean (including italian for the Nazi). The list was not the same for Fascist Italy/Spain/France, but close enough.
[2] Warren buffet said so/worker are manipulated into de-unionizing/ transversal fights are a diversion by the bourgeoisie
Also, the liberal left trying to close overton window while opening theirs is a poor response, but a response nonetheless.
For people realy on the far left reading this: you are behind the fascists and the liberals in the culture war: go to your group and start opening overton windows about the far left culture: violence against property as a mean of expression, street occupation and guns right as a mean of self-defense (rememebr the Black Panthers? Go do the same thing! Or at least talk about it).
I don’t know what point you’re trying to convey, to be honest.
But in my own experience all sorts of people who hold views on the Left tend to 1) distance themselves from “the left”, 2) claim that what is perceived as left-wing is actually only barely left wing, and 3) claim that the right has dramatically more power and influence than they really do.
So I’m not really looking for a definition of what the left and the right are. I’m just noting how the person I was responding to must have a radically different definition that convention.
It doesn’t take a majority of a population to get changes made, just a persistent and vocal minority.
But please, do go on about my narrative. Especially when you come to this thread with narratives like “The "extreme left" is not even a fraction as represented as even far right within popular consciousness and, more significantly, political representation.”
Which is farcical when you look at how mainstream and accepted ideas from the left are in the culture of the west. Unless you shift the definitions of what far-left and far-right are.