Tucker Lieberman
1 min readNov 13, 2023

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Ah, I think I get it. Thanks, this is helpful. For me, when given only two parties, I've always voted for the lefter of the two, in large part because from a young age I've been pro-environment, pro-abortion rights, and anti-war — but also just because I'm a gay transsexual atheist Jew, which cinches it, because where else would I go, politically. (Unless I were self-hating or Milo Yiannopoulos.) People from more dominant groups may perceive themselves as welcome within (or well served by) the right and thus may ultimately choose to vote that way. But anyone might hold various bigotries while they're voting whatever way—I think that's what you're saying—and it's tricky to presume how their specific bigotry is or isn't related to their overall political leaning. For example, they might seem to be parroting some fascist narrative, but maybe their belief actually had some other origin or means something else to them, in which case an anti-fascist narrative wouldn't effectively critique their belief and wouldn't cause them to abandon it, but perhaps a different liberationist narrative would.

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Tucker Lieberman
Tucker Lieberman

Written by Tucker Lieberman

Cult classic. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." Editor for Prism & Pen and Identity Current. tuckerlieberman.com

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