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[–] bouh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ones I interacted with seemed more to the right in my opinion, but maybe I am too far left already?

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They tend towards the left, but that's not always the case for every individual. The ones I know are anti-capitalist, but I'm positive that there are liberal Pagans too

[–] ZodiacSF1969@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like a lot of people on Lemmy suffer from this issue: they see things as right-wing just because their POV is decidedly left. I know the basic left-right spectrum is too simple, but we do need to recognize politics is relative and that just because you are further one direction than someone else doesn't invalidate the fact that by common standards they are on that sane side of the spectrum.

[–] bouh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, there are other things too. Like how you are with feminism for example : do you see women as naturally caring and emotional and men as naturally strong and violent and providing? That's hard right for me. And sometimes the pagan things are about some kind of empowerment or attempt at progress that falls flat into conservative or reactionary ideology.

The most difficult though is about liberals. It depends on where you live obviously. But they tend to consider them center, or even left if they are progressive in any way. Yet I will never consider individualism a progressive ideology anymore.