Was Christopher Hitchens a right winger?
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« on: August 20, 2014, 06:16:54 PM »
Yes. Hating Christians doesn't make you left wing any more than Ayn Rand was.
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« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2014, 06:22:04 PM »
No, he was just a douche.
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« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2014, 06:25:21 PM »
Not really. Interventionist foreign policy doesn't equal right wing.  I mean, most right wingers don't use the "Marxist" to describe themselves...
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« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2014, 06:36:24 PM »
Wasn't he an avowed, outspoken socialist?
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« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2014, 07:58:17 PM »
Quote from: Passing Through a Screen Door on August 20, 2014, 06:16:54 PM
Yes. Hating Christians doesn't make you left wing any more than Ayn Rand was.

And being hawkish on foreign policy does not make you right wing, nor has it ever.  The idea that being against interventionist war is "liberal" was fabricated the second the Iraq War (started by a Republican) became unpopular...
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« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2014, 10:43:59 PM »
No (not an idiot).

Quote from: R2D2 on August 20, 2014, 06:36:24 PM
Wasn't he an avowed, outspoken socialist?

He was in the 60s. He gave up socialism in the early 90s, but still considered himself a Marxist and a Trotskyist.
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« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2014, 11:26:09 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: August 20, 2014, 11:27:21 PM »
No
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« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2014, 12:49:44 AM »
Quote from: Senator Goldwater on August 20, 2014, 06:25:21 PM
Not really. Interventionist foreign policy doesn't equal right wing.  I mean, most right wingers don't use the "Marxist" to describe themselves...
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« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2014, 01:04:07 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2014, 01:36:08 AM »
No, and I don't classify him as right or left.  He was just awesome.  A bit hawkish, but still awesome. 
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« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2014, 08:36:17 AM »
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« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2014, 09:41:43 AM »
He was an awesome douche. BRTD reveals his stunning ignorance yet again.
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« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2014, 11:28:19 AM »
Quote from: HockeyDude on August 21, 2014, 01:36:08 AM
No, and I don't classify him as right or left.  He was just awesome.  A bit hawkish, but still awesome. 
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« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2014, 11:58:50 AM »
What exactly made him "cool"?

1-He was a complete f[inks]ing asshole.
2-He had terrible politics.
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« Reply #15 on: August 21, 2014, 04:28:47 PM »
Quote from: Mordecai on August 20, 2014, 10:43:59 PM
No (not an idiot).

Quote from: R2D2 on August 20, 2014, 06:36:24 PM
Wasn't he an avowed, outspoken socialist?

He was in the 60s. He gave up socialism in the early 90s, but still considered himself a Marxist and a Trotskyist.

His last words were "capitalism, downfall".
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« Reply #16 on: August 21, 2014, 06:51:08 PM »
Quote from: Senator Alfred F. Jones on August 21, 2014, 04:28:47 PM
Quote from: Mordecai on August 20, 2014, 10:43:59 PM
No (not an idiot).

Quote from: R2D2 on August 20, 2014, 06:36:24 PM
Wasn't he an avowed, outspoken socialist?

He was in the 60s. He gave up socialism in the early 90s, but still considered himself a Marxist and a Trotskyist.

His last words were "capitalism, downfall".

He was always a contrarian. He's probably the only person in the entirety of the United States to have supported Nader in 2000, voted for Bush in 2004 and then voted for Obama in 2008.
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« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2014, 02:19:43 PM »
he was a freedom fighter.
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« Reply #18 on: August 23, 2014, 12:47:33 PM »
One can support full-flung military interventionism around the world and still be leftist.
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« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2014, 05:32:05 AM »
Quote from: TheDeadFlagBlues on August 23, 2014, 12:47:33 PM
One can support full-flung military interventionism around the world and still be leftist.

Militance is indeed an essential part of being a radical and a Trotskyist, both of which he claimed to be.
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