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kleinbl00  ·  3419 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Tumblr vs. Hubski

"Left" and "Right" shouldn't be subjective. The Left has been liberal and the Right has been conservative since 1789. The problems of definition come from muddy thinking and misapplication. It's tricky to say that the right is "anti-feminist" when the right predates suffrage. It's trickier to say that feminism is leftist when the earliest feminists were also closely tied with prohibition. HOWEVER it's easy to say that requiring parental or partner consent for abortion is a conservative idea and anti-feminist.

Case in point: no one on the planet would argue that Libertarians are leftist. On the political spectrum, Libertarians are so right-wing that they loop back to appear somewhat like anarchists.