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I don't care what your views are and yes you're right. Sometimes it's quite right to have views outside the social norms.

Now remember this thread started because you specifically raised an issue with being called far right. Do you think that maybe you do have views outside the norm. Note that i'm not saying it's right or wrong nor do i even want to know what your views are, i'm just pointing out that you might just fit the description of far right/left if your measuring stick for normal is to compare your views to those of a decade that started over 30years ago.




You say you don't care what my views are, but all of your responses suggest otherwise.

And yes, I'm right. It's sometimes right to have views outside social norms.

However, my views are not "outside social norms", unless you only count members of the full-on right, and full-on left as "social norms". My views are right in between those two.

Edit: "You can still be outside norms without being at the fringes." Hehe, we used to have a name for this: centrist. I know your kind hates us even worse than Trump supporters. They're beyond your influence, but you know that bullying, shaming, and harassment can "convince" many centrists. Well, not this one.

And boy, I screwed up by saying 1990s moderate Democrats. I should have said a 2008 Obama moderate, which is basically the same thing but few would dare call him "far right". BTW, I voted for him in 2008 (but not 2012).


You can still be outside norms without being at the fringes. This has always been the case and nothing new. And i really don't care about your views, note from the start i have explicitly noted that you may be right or wrong. It's just that what you've said about having views that other people had in the 90's isn't proof that your views are within social norms. You may be outside them or you may be within them but "Someone X years ago had the same views as me" isn't a defense to be called outside the norm.


> You can still be outside norms without being at the fringes. This has always been the case and nothing new.

That's absolutely ridiculous. "outside norms"? Whose norms? Your in-group's norms, which is at best around 20-30% of the country. There's a stronger argument that you all are the ones who are outside our country's norms, at least at present.




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