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

[bennyboy]

I'm not sure why opposition to the screechy left is taken as approval of the nutjob right.  You can dislike one without supporting the other, you know.

A position I share, but, honestly, throughout the past 82 pages of this thread, you've shown you're edging towards the latter.

I can see that you have that perception.  Is it because I'm broaching taboo subjects, or is it because of the policies which I've extrapolated from them?  I'm fairly certain that my policy positions fall well on the left side of the spectrum.

Is it sufficient that I act in accordance with the left to establish myself as left, or is it necessary also think and feel in particular ways?  And if I don't. . . should I pretend?

I choose not to.  I will examine whatever positions seem right to me.  It seems right to me that the black population in the States is in dire condition, and that it's not exclusively due to racist oppression.  It's TRACED ultimately to slavery, for sure, but unless you want to completely disregard the agency of black people to act on their own behalf or to express their own values in their behavior, then it's not only the views of white supremacists that need to be cleaned up.

I would love, absolutely love, to hear what Khemikal's wife thinks of all this.  I'm currently under the impression that the PC Left are almost entirely white, and probably mostly men.  I wish I had access to more black friends who I could speak freely with about this kind of stuff.