[washingtonismoney]

Seems mostly like helpfully heterodox branding, unless anyone knows any different.

FIRE is not, like, the worst organization in the world or anything like that, but I agree the progressive branding is mostly that -- branding. Or to be charitable to Lukianoff, he's more of a progressive in the older-school ACLU type mode, that's free speech absolutist. It's a perfectly valid worldview, but its funders are primarily conservative: the Kochs, the Scaifes, the Bradley Foundation. So I think it's missing some context if you simply say "I'm a progressive." With an asterisk, of course.* 

*(The Kochs, of course, can take somewhat complicated political stands sometimes and are, sometimes, happy to make alliances with progressives or liberals. That said, if you're a progressive or liberal you may want to watch out. They had a big criminal justice reform push that just happened to, quietly, push for lessened jailtime...for white collar criminals. To take just one example.)

[washingtonismoney]

Seems mostly like helpfully heterodox branding, unless anyone knows any different.

FIRE is not, like, the worst organization in the world or anything like that, but I agree the progressive branding is mostly that -- branding. Or to be charitable to Lukianoff, he's more of a progressive in the older-school ACLU type mode, that's free speech absolutist. It's a perfectly valid worldview, but its funders are primarily conservative: the Kochs, the Scaifes, the Bradley Foundation. So I think it's missing some context if you simply say "I'm a progressive." With an asterisk, of course.* 

*(The Kochs, of course, can take somewhat complicated political stands sometimes and are, sometimes, happy to make alliances with progressives or liberals. That said, if you're a progressive or liberal you may want to watch out. They had a big criminal justice reform push that just happened to, quietly, push for lessened jailtime...for white collar criminals. To take just one example.)