I downvoted you because I mostly agree—depending on how broadly you mean broadly. I suspect this is a not uncommon position here, and I would not even be surprised if it were a plurality position.
That’s fine. In some recent threads I’ve taken what I felt was a mainstream if leftist position, written (IMO) reasonable, positive arguments—and been downvoted for it, to the extent that I’m entertaining the hypothesis that LW is full of libertarians who are strongly opposed to such views. Confirming that out one way or the other is useful information.
I also have the general impression that in the past few months there has been an uptick of uncharitable tinman-attacks on progressivism by libertarians in the LW comment threads. Curiously, there seems to be less overt hostility between reactionaries and progressives, even though they’re much further apart than libertarians and progressives (although this might be because the more hostile Nrx were more likely to exit after the creation of Moreright).
I downvoted you because I mostly agree—depending on how broadly you mean broadly. I suspect this is a not uncommon position here, and I would not even be surprised if it were a plurality position.
That’s fine. In some recent threads I’ve taken what I felt was a mainstream if leftist position, written (IMO) reasonable, positive arguments—and been downvoted for it, to the extent that I’m entertaining the hypothesis that LW is full of libertarians who are strongly opposed to such views. Confirming that out one way or the other is useful information.
I also have the general impression that in the past few months there has been an uptick of uncharitable tinman-attacks on progressivism by libertarians in the LW comment threads. Curiously, there seems to be less overt hostility between reactionaries and progressives, even though they’re much further apart than libertarians and progressives (although this might be because the more hostile Nrx were more likely to exit after the creation of Moreright).
I’ve had the same feeling. I suspect there are loud reactionary and libertarian minorities and a large number of liberal quiet people