Racism according to...
The Far Left: Even thinking of ethnicity makes you a Nazi.
The Left: Doing/saying bad things to/about minorities, no matter what they did/said to/about you, makes you a Nazi.
The Right: If nobody's enslaving or lynching anyone, it's not racism.
The Far Right: What's wrong with racism?
@lwdallas The American version of the far right seem to identify with the Republican Party. The European version has them forming coalitions with the conservative, Christian democrat and liberal parties in order to push the labour party out. They never seem to form coalitions with the left, and they are often anti-tax and anti-regulation, which would place them quite squarely on the right wing.
@thor ah you changed you’re scale there
@thor Oh, the honest truth. It hurts! It hurts!
@thor centrists: "everyone is deplorable but me"
@xrevan86 Per that criterion, I'm really far left. Pretty sure I'm not, though. 😉
@xrevan86 The capitalist-socialist axis still holds. So does the authoritarian-libertarian axis. That's four quadrants. Add to that a nationalist-globalist axis. That's eight octants (corners of a three-dimensional coordinate system). Leftists voting for populist right wingers is easy to explain in this model: They align on nationalism, not necessarily the other things. No one expects a political candidate to be perfectly aligned with them, so one prioritises.
@xrevan86 What's trickier is the calibration. It's not quite the same in Europe as in America. America shifts the whole capitalist-socialist scale to the right. I'm told that Obama would be center-right according to the European scale.
@thor I’m starting to weigh a corrected scale. And it took years to realize. The right: just be responsible for yourself and apologize when you get it wrong.
The far right category isn’t even far right. It’s something else. Marxist even. I’m still thinking about this.