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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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people are really out here completely unironically explaining the polical compass as a way to understand politics AT A COLLEGE LEVEL aaaaasaaaa :agony-shivering: :agony-deep:

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

When Marx becomes taboo what you're left with is basically this shit. No historical context or material reality, just ideas floating freely around a 2 dimensional chart. I feel like Qing dynasty mandarins who spent their lives memorizing the same 10 books were less ideologically wedded to the confucian order than the average polisci student is to neoliberalism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mfers will post the political compass like it's a toss up what happens, and then the questions on the actual quiz that would put you "up there with Stalin" are like "hey, do you think the state should liquidate gay people?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The compass is ahistoric, idealist garbage to begin with, but the questionaire is a whole other can of worms. It completely fails at measuring anything outside of US mainstream politics, as that's what the questions are designed for. It will routinely label mild socdems as anarchists, it is almost impossible to score as a communist, it will even label Ben Shapiro as a moderate liberal (he actually took the test and that was what it said) and anything that can put you in the authoritarian half of the graph are right wing culture war issues. Including abortion, which ... basically all AES nations legalized way before anybody else.

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

I thought Ben Shapiro got authoritarian right, and then he said "this proves the political compass is BS". He was right, but he was wrong about how he was right.