meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

When Does The Left Go Too Far? - Part 2

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

Leo Gura

Self-help, Health

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 182 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A non-partisan, non-ideological look at the problems and excesses of left-wing and progressives politics.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

0:19.0

A quote by George Orwell.

0:23.0

Where the left goes wrong, part two.

0:27.0

We're continuing off right where we left off in part one,

0:30.0

so go watch part one if you haven't.

0:33.3

We ended part one if you haven't. We ended part one, emphasizing that one of the biggest

0:38.3

blind spots of leftists is that they don't appreciate how attached people are,

0:45.0

especially conservatives who are the majority of people,

0:48.8

how attached they are to their culture,

0:52.1

to their national identity and so forth and to basically the traditional way

0:59.7

of living life. This is what we might call culture. And now this brings us to the next point which is

1:06.2

LGBTQ plus issues. The left goes wrong by pushing this too far.

1:13.3

Now of course there's a legitimate essence

1:18.1

behind LGBTQ plus, which is that we want

1:21.1

to be much more tolerant and kinder towards people who are

1:28.0

non-sis, let's say, who are gay, who are trans, who are whatever other kind of, you know, non-standard identifications.

1:38.0

That's all well and good, however this can be taken too far.

1:42.0

And what the left doesn't understand about this issue is how deeply

1:45.8

it freaks out people on the right and just not even people on the right but

1:50.0

moderates as well. It's not just extreme right-wingers who are homophobes and transphobes

1:58.3

and anti-Lgibt-Q-plus. A lot of just moderate Democrats and Republicans are weirded out by this issue and

2:08.6

Leftists don't seem to understand this again because Leftists tend to be so open-minded that they don't have a good

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Leo Gura, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Leo Gura and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.