Sarah Jeong's Harvard lecture: "The Internet of Garbage"

But doesn’t “Liberal” cover a very wide range of beliefs, with the middle ground between them and conservatives having moved dramatically to the right in the last 40 year? Some liberals seem very right wing to me (Hillary Clinton for example).

Then there’s the thing with a lot of libertarian-socialists not identifying as liberal as they view their politics as revolutionary while liberals are reformists.

I’ll admit to toning down what I say here, as I’m giving Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders a chance to move politics back to the left, and effectively giving representative democracy a last chance too.

But know that’s not what what @lolipop_jones is saying, It’s just my view from the libertarian-far-left.

Again, from my perspective BoingBoing covers quite a wide political range of views, just not those of Republicans or Libertarian-Capitalists (or Stalinists, as a left wing example).

I also avoid reading conservative sites, because they would often trigger PTSD episodes when covering LGBT issues.

Not fun :frowning:

Yes, read things that oppose your preconceptions, but recognise that it isn’t always healthy to do so. If the Daily Mail’s views makes you suicidal you probably don’t want to look at anything to the right of it (Or the left of it if you are right wing, although I doubt that you would be able to function in society if that were the case.)

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