• WamGams@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I once had a Republican tell me he was, “black woke, not trans woke.”

    I told him I didn’t know what that meant, and he said, “I don’t hate people for who they are, but people can’t just be whatever they want to be.”

    Cue the Nathan Fielder meme of him just saying, “oh… Okay.”

  • SaintWacko@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    I read something once that made a lot of sense. For the left, freedom means “freedom from”. For the right, freedom means “freedom to”.

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      well, all the examples in the image are “freedom to”, and are leftist viewpoints, so I’m not sure about that that statement.

    • FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      7 months ago

      I mean, for me, it means both. I’m a big believer in FDR’s concept of four freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.