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CMV: Attitudes towards racial and gender issues shouldn't be labelled as left wing or right wing

Of course, left wing and right wing parties differ in opinion on those issues. However, my point is that they aren't a inherently political thing. Society made them political.

For example, the right wing in United States is super against abortions, LGBT, drug legalization, etc. However, technically if the right wing is all about "freedom" as they say they are, then they shouldn't be against those things. (I know that it is much more complicated than that, but I'm saying that they aren't true to their pro-freedom stance since they also hate all that)

Another example is how the Soviet Union was super leftist, however, they were really against LGBT too. Yet modern day feminists say that "left wing is the way to go for LGBT rights". In addition, soviet union punishes prisoners hard, yet left-wingers says that left-wing is about not punishing prisoners. Speaking of prisons, American Republicans want stricter prisons, death penalty, more police and military, yet say that government control is bad. These are all proof that stances on social issues shouldn't be associated with either the left or right. The truth is that politics is almost inherently hypocritical and there will always be contradictions. 

Edit: wow there are people who scrolled through my post history, then PM me calling me "biased to the left" or "biased to the right". Damn do you guys have so much time. Here's the thing, most of my post history calls out the right wing, since I am left wing personally. However, this post in particular isn't about me taking a side. In fact, the point of my post is that we should move past the left wing/right wing labels when it comes to social issues.
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"Left wing" and "right wing" are relative terms: they only make sense in relation to one another, and in relation to a specific national context. When we're comparing across national contexts, we often find that what's "left" in one country would actually be "right" in another: as an example, if the context is the Scandinavian countries, then the Democratic party of the U.S. is "right-of-center," not on the "left," in comparison to their "left" parties. The arbitrariness of calling racial and gender issues "left" or "right" has to do with the arbitrariness of the labels themselves, not about racial and gender issues themselves.

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More than that, here's a classical definition of politics: the battle over the distribution of resources in a society. Racial and gender inequalities are inherently political on that definition, in that they have to do with unequal access to the same resources, such as marriage equality and jobs.