Unlocked: Myth of the Month 6: Political Left and Right
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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What's the Difference Between a Pear and a Bear?
In languages where that distinction isn't made, people are not accustomed to distinguishing them. To english speakers, those things are, are distinct. And the same word, like pear or bear, can have a completely different meaning depending on whether you understand it to have a p sound or a b sound. This problem, of course, can happen when we're talking about politics and political debates, right? Say we talk about the left wing. You know, iave had arguments with people where some one will alide or fuse together different leftest camps that, in my view, and in my experience, are totally different. Also, when people adopt conceptual and categorizing schemes, they can
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