Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?

[bennyboy]

Hmmmm.  White people want to view white people in a positive light.

Sounds pretty insidious.  Thank God black people, gay people, or women don't do that.

Nice not getting it Benny .The same people who want to collectively use their race to take credit for things but in the same breathe will deny the negative collectively. And the minorities you mention want to be painted in positive light for very different reason then Alt Right morons.

well, you have a good point there. I think you are probably completely right about the cherry-picking of demographic identity. I'd say both the far-left and the far-right do this a lot-- in fact, I'd almost define "farness" as the degree to which one selectively biases the framing of things in favor of one ideology and in opposition to another. The difference, in my view, is that the far-left are mainly annoying to those they disagree with, and the far-right are prone to real grievous violence. So I do in fact accept that there's a meaningful symmetry there that matters.

I'd say also, though, that I see it as a political ring, rather than a political axis. I don't think there's much difference between say Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany, in terms of liberty and quality of life. At the extremes, there is so little tolerance for opposing views that the concept of liberty is abandoned, and at the most extreme, it's "Believe or die," for example as it currently is in N. Korea.