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I have been debating the Alt Right all week, but I still hold that the left is more of a threat to our culture than the right ever could be

They actually run academia and push propaganda through the social sciences. Karl Marx is the # 1 most assigned economist, we are the most anti-freedom of speech generation, and the most anti capitalist. 100% capitalism is bad, but we need a mixed economy, and being against means of production privately owned all together is bad.
The alt-right is a problem, but not on a large scale, at least right now
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
This is the political world according to youtube:

Where culture controls economics rather than the other way around, where academia has more power than business and where campus social justice warriors represent the entire political left.

In the real world: the actual US president spouts far right conspiracy theories, neo liberalism further strengthens its strangle hold and worth inequality continues to explode.
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@AgapeLove I don't mean to offend but the 'framing' of your analysis seems very very similar to a lot of right leaning you tubers. Sargon of Akkad, Ben shapiro and jordon petersen etc.

You may or may not agree with those pundits but the emphasis on culture, the power of academia and the significance of the campus left comes straight from YouTube.

Campus politics exists in a bobble and the right straw man views even there. I don't think culture controls politics because if it did, economics would be moving in a more egalitarian direction instead of the opposite.
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@AgapeLove This is what I mean. This is a strawman of a niche issue that effects social science academia and nothing else. It has no wider influence.
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Burnley123 · 41-45, M
@AgapeLove I did a social science degree in the UK. Most professors leaned somewhat to the left but most of the students were centrist or a political in addition, people's politics change throughout their life.

What Marx wrote was mostly theory of economics rather than revolution and people citing him does not mean that they agree.

Campus Sjws are not Marxists and cultural Marxism is a conspiracy theory. In addition, almost every video of Sjws doesn't deal with their ideas in their own words bit picks the most radical strawman.

Most people don't have direct experience of dealing with the somehow powerful SJW left. For the record I am against most no platforming but I don't see that as having power in the real world because student politics is an isolated bubble.

I actually wish that social sciences and the socialist left had a lot more power than they do. If they did, it would mean the right wing framing and misconceptions of that politics wouldn't be so widespread.
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