I think the author makes some classic mistakes when talking about the left wing vs right wing argument.
First right wingers can’t be racist… its not possible. If you have any form of “racism” the farthest right you can get is center-right and even there I’ve never heard of one. Only left wingers can be racist because only left wingers view ppl as “groups” aka collectives’. Right wingers view ppl as individuals which means that judging ppl as a “group” aka racism is completely opposing a right wing view.
Another thing you say is that “conservatism” is right wing this is also not true. Conservatism spans a range from center-right to center-left. I know no conservatives that could be classed as “rightwing”… unless you count someone like ron paul as “conservative”. Most conservatives believe in religion… religion is of course a left wing ideal. Pretty much any major religion(jews, christians, muslim) are at best centrist but normally left wing depending on the branch.
The reason that leftist hate the “older” left wing ideals is just that… jews and christians are both old ideals and “failed” ideals. This is why many ppl call things like communism or lately global warming a religion…. because it is for the most part.(and most of all from the followers who believe in it)
The problem is in todays world is that that the left has made “right wing” and “left wing” as vague as possible to basically blame anything on the rightwing… however if you take the time to read more classic books that follow historic standards of left and right and then match them to ppl of today you see they’re are no “right-wingers”.
You also see that hitler is really “rightwing”… because by todays standard anyone RIGHT of stalin is rightwing.
