Leftest are reshoem?

Killing surplus babies is a “leftist” position? When the Nazis killed Jewish babies, we thought they were “right” wing. And both the left and right include anti-Semites (one can argue that Jewish survival is to make sure that neither extreme comes to power).

We should remember that “left” and “right” refer to which side of the parliament different groups sat on in the French parliament during the French Revolution – and that Jews didn’t get the right to vote or hold office in France until after the revolution.

We also need to remember that in basic economic matters, most frum Jews tend towards the “left”, and indeed, our community has a history of left-wing positions in many areas such as providing education for all and supporting the poor and regarding such support as a duty.

As one who has personally observed a few leftists in their natural habitat, I’ve documented two distinct types.

The first, a naturally insulated genotype, whether by circumstance or by result of intentional intellectual self-segregation, exhibiting an infantile insecurity in their own belief system, which manifests as an abrasive and oft hostile xenophobic tendency towards other-minded individuals, is typically atheistic out of pure ignorance of all theism. They do not bother themselves with socially acceptable norms for “morality”, as they have no regard for social acceptance outside of their insular social puddle of amorality.

The second, typically a former centrist, right leaning, or apolitical breed, too distract by their own virtue signaling to focus on morality and reality, do everything in their power to fit in with their newly found leftist circles, lest they be perceived as a centrist/right leaning thinker and be cannibalized by their new peers. Driven by a bitter resentment towards anything associated with their former philosophical belief system, they self-ostracized from their prior social circles either fully or partially (the reason for their partial withdrawal typically being due to a subconscious nagging guilt, or to not lose their financial dependence on said prior social circle). Despite having no logical connection to the cause of the trauma inflicted within the prior circle, any philosophical agreement is a painful association, in a PTSD sort of manifestation, and must be dissociated from fully. This breed is concerned with morals, but is willing to live with the cognitive dissonance to support their self-ostracization, viewing it as a justifiable means to an end. Traditional definitions of right and wrong and morality at large are not viewed with the widely accepted centrality-to-life, but as an auxiliary factor that must be sacrificed for the subject’s own mental health, as they are simply doing what they can to survive their own past emotional trauma.

It is standard for both of these categories to lash out at anyone seeking to define them as unoriginal or fitting into a mold, despite them being unoriginal, and fitting into a mold better than a bunt pan pound cake, sans frosting. It is also expected for them to refuse all logical arguments regarding theism and to lash out emotionally when confronted with logic. Somehow they self define as spiritual but not religious, and not believing in any known God, despite not typically spending any serious amount of time studying Theology with any serious level of breadth and depth. They take their lattes with soy, and pumps of various chemically processed foreign flavoring agents.

RE -“For Jews, abortion is not killing as the Torah requires to pay money ”

That’s one Shitta out of 5.

were you hoping to be banned? -29

No, clearly not all Leftists are rishoyim. The rest are just walking around with a diagnosable mental disorder.

I once saw a great way to sum it up.
The right thinks the left is crazy.
The left thinks the right is evil.

The truth is, the reasons why people lean left or right have been explained by Jonathan Haidt and are more complicated than just being crazy or evil, but I think AOC basically summed it up recently when she commented how being morally right was more important than being factually correct. If it seems right and feels right, it is right. And when you base your morals on whatever your gut feeling is, because there is no higher power to lay down morals, you ended up believing ‘reproductive justice’ is not the most ironic misuse of the word in history.

In general, leftists aren’t reshoim, but the leftest are.

Dear Toi,

You could be summing up both today’s left and today’s right. Feelings run high in our times. Education runs low. Except for the costs. And the profits of the premier institutions.

The main reason why gun advocates are pro life is, they are running out of moving targets.

A lot of pro lifers never think of what it would mean he Roe v. Wade were overturned.

I am just fine with being pro life in the status quo. Let’s avoid abortion because of the sanctity of life. Not out of fear of jail.

Dear Health,

There is no traction in this country to abolish prison. The left is very into harsh sentences for violent crime.

We now know – why Hashem only wants the Death Penalty.
The other punishments aren’t Sustainable!

The article appears in the UMKC Law Review, Vol. 87:1.
“In recent years, there has been a growing bipartisan consensus that the uniquely
American policy of mass incarceration is both fiscally and morally unsustainable.”

I wasn’t aware that Hashem wanted the death penalty for everyone
found in possession of a certain amount of an illegal substance.
(Also, Hashem’s standards for conviction are very demanding.)

“While the United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world’s
population, it houses around 22 percent of the world’s prisoners.”
Does that sound sensible to you? (Is this the most criminal country?)

As one who has personally observed a few leftists in their
natural habitat, I’ve documented two distinct types.

Are there other types you haven’t documented,
or are you saying all leftism is pathological?

but I think AOC basically summed it up recently when she commented how being morally right was more important than being factually correct. If it seems right and feels right, it is right. And when you base your morals on whatever your gut feeling is

I looked this up, and it’s a misrepresentation. She wasn’t saying that it’s
more important for a given statement to be morally than factually correct,
she was commenting on people focusing more on fact-checking her than
on whether her positions are right.

“If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there, I would argue that they’re missing the forest for the trees,” she said. I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.”

“It’s absolutely important,” Ocasio-Cortez agreed. “And whenever I make a mistake. I say, “Okay, this was clumsy.” And then I restate what my point was. But it’s not the same thing as the president lying about immigrants. It’s not the same thing, at all.”

Random3x -“I wasn’t aware that Hashem wanted the death penalty for everyone
found in possession of a certain amount of an illegal substance.”

You put words in my mouth – Why?
Maybe you don’t know American Law?
For personal use – they just ticket you.
If you have a lot, they assume you want to sell it.
If you sell Illegal Drugs – you should be killed.

“(Also, Hashem’s standards for conviction are very demanding.)”
Not at all for Goyim. Maybe you don’t know Halacha?

Yidd23 -“Health, why should people selling illegal drugs be killed while people who sell harmful drugs legally become wealthy?”

No one is forcing them to take the drugs. They probably take them for Medical conditions. So the benefit outweighs the risk.

Dear Health,

You confused harsh sentences for violent crimes, with mass incarceration for domestic regulations.

Then you switched the discussion.

Then you completely misconstrued the two different drug problems.

And all the counterpoints aimed at your position are currently unanswered.

I’m just curios if you mean to say that a pharmaceutical company that mislead the public about opioids should not be held accountable.