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kropotkhristian:
The entire point of the right-wing and conservative political project is to legitimize hierarchy. They are willing to use any method to do it, and that is why they are supposedly so fraught with contradiction. But they are only contradictions if you take them at their word. Every right-wing position makes perfect sense if you realize that their entire reason for existing is to legitimize or re-legitimize hierarchical relationships of power.
Conservatives hate the government when it undermines market or wealth hierarchies. Conservatives love the government when it upholds racial or cultural hierarchies (or wealth and market hierarchies). Conservatives hate so-called “politically correct” language when it undermines cultural or racial hierarchies. They love “politically correct” enforcement when it upholds them.
So there really is no contradiction. Conservatism loves deference to authority and unequal relationships of power, and they will use whatever method they can to legitimize or re-legitimize them.
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kropotkhristian:
The entire point of the right-wing and conservative political project is to legitimize hierarchy. They are willing to use any method to do it, and that is why they are supposedly so fraught with contradiction. But they are only contradictions if you take them at their word. Every right-wing position makes perfect sense if you realize that their entire reason for existing is to legitimize or re-legitimize hierarchical relationships of power.
Conservatives hate the government when it undermines market or wealth hierarchies. Conservatives love the government when it upholds racial or cultural hierarchies (or wealth and market hierarchies). Conservatives hate so-called “politically correct” language when it undermines cultural or racial hierarchies. They love “politically correct” enforcement when it upholds them.
So there really is no contradiction. Conservatism loves deference to authority and unequal relationships of power, and they will use whatever method they can to legitimize or re-legitimize them.
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