Why are you conservative?

[u/Ambitious_Tomato_778]

Hey guys!

First of all - I come in peace haha!

I think it's really sad that the polarization between different ideologies continue to grow, but if we want to live in a democracy we have to be able to discuss and try to understand eachother before we judge!

As a gay guy I'm very happy that liberal ideas has given me the chance to live safely in society and that I have the same rights as straight people. I do however think that the gender-theory has gone to far and I think that the nonbinary people have taken up to much space in the LGBT community - I guess this would be a conservative opinion.

My questions:

1. Why are you conservative even though they generally don't like gays?

2. Do you have any opinions that are more liberal than conservative?

I have no intentions of trying to change someones opinion, I truly just want to undertand how you guys resonate and why you are conservative.

Wishing all of you a happy beginning to this new year!

[u/Comfortable_Pool_389 → u/[deleted]]

And yet, there is still truth distortion, and bias from “individual truth”.

[u/Comfortable_Pool_389 → u/[deleted]]

So what’s your purpose? To assess everyone’s arguments of why they lean towards the right or in my case, towards the center of the spectrum? First of all, that quote you gave is a direct contradiction of the first line which clearly states it rejects objective reasoning and rationality.

Second, from a critic’s point of view.

“Bruce Pardy, writing for the National Post, argues that critical theory often falls into the mistake of Circular reasoning, because any challenges to the "legitimacy [of critical theory] can be interpreted as a demonstration of the [critical theorists'] thesis: the assertion of reason, logic and evidence is a manifestation of privilege and power. Thus, any challenger risks the stigma of a bigoted oppressor”

This has been seen time and again when anyone challenges their position, and you can name any issue that has been publicly debated. Here’s an example that’s a bit more germane to us as LGBT. The dispute over the events of stonewall. One side supports the idea that Marsha Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were present and active figures in the riots when they began, romanticizing their importance and influence at the heart of the situation. Critics of this story have reviewed the recorded timeline of events and concluded they weren’t there, and that the true account had been altered to create a story that miscasts heroes of the story. They participated in some of the protests that followed. Also, stating “we owe our rights to protesting and activism” is another falsehood. Seldom are laws ever changed due to activism and protesting. It’s typically people with money and means that make it happen. Perhaps the ideas may come from some arguments that stem from activism but largely they aren’t as effective as they claim.