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Harry Potter and the Status Quo rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I agree with his overall dissection of the weakness of writing and the nonexistent character, however I find it absurd to say liberals are afraid of change and fight change.

That's a whole new level of mental gymnastics

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you're confusing liberalism with leftism. The post is talking about neoliberalism, which is fundamentally a political philosophy of "no bad systems, only bad actors", and is actually pretty darn anti-change and therefore conservative. If you'd like to watch a longer form essay that goes into more detail on the points that greentext brought up, and explains it within the greater context of Rowling's own politics, I highly recommend this video by Shaun (a leftist YT essayist): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1iaJWSwUZs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

One perspective I don't see very often in this discussion is one I heard in the appendices of the revolutions podcast. It is the following: People are moderate or radical in both means and ends respectively. So in ideological conflicts one will find:

Radical radicals: people willing to use means outside the current system (e.g. violent force) to reach radical ends (e.g. communism or fascism).
Moderate radicals: people only willing to use means within the current system to reach radical ends.
Moderate moderates: people only willing to use means within the current system to reach moderate ends and go no further.
Radical moderates: people willing to use radical means to reach moderate ends and prevent it from going any further.

I think this is a good perspective to have when looking at behavior of different political groups.

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