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Originally Posted by aegsm76
So only right-wingers can be racist nationalists.
Got it.
Then you want to change it from a simple left-wing/right-wing narrative to one where "well they are a right-wing in all the bad parts", but "the parts I like are left-wing".
Got it.
Was Abraham Lincoln right or left wing...
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I didn't say that. I only said that the Nazis are commonly considered right-wing on account of their racist nationalist authoritarianism. I also never said that I like any part of their system. I only acknowledged that they were leftists when it came to economics.
You're going personal. If you don't believe that racist nationalism and authoritarianism is distinctly right-wing, that's a fair statement of opinion. However, leftists typically favor equality, worker solidarity, and democracy within a system of checks and balances that tends to reduce authoritarianism and dictatorship. This isn't a denial that many leftists have gained power and threw equality, solidarity, democracy, and checks & balances out the window. But those who do betray the platform on which they claim to stand and had typically campaigned on.
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