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Cultural Libertarians VS Cultural Authoritarians

This is a fascinating article that closely matches what I've been talking about and how I've been feeling recently.  It is written by a conservative, but he thinks that in addition to a "left"-"right" continuum, there is also a perpendicular axis ranging from "cultural authoritarian" to "cultural libertarian".  And members of both the left and right can fall anywhere along this other axis.  Those who are capable of living with each other (if not agreeing with each other) are the "cultural libertarians" of both sides.  These are the people who care about freedom of speech more than they care about shutting down people with differing ideas.  Such people include Bill Maher, Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz, and more...and that's just the left.  Yet these people are sometimes called "neocons" by other members of the left who are "cultural authoritarians".  Maajid Nawaz has been called a "porch monkey" for his views...not by a racist right-winger, but from a fellow Muslim and fellow leftist.  Obviously, he would have been lambasted had he been a conservative, but he could get away with it because he is a supposed liberal.  This is what we are dealing with today, and although this article is a relatively long read, I recommend that you at least start it, and if you find it interesting, you can continue reading.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/24/rise-of-the-cultural-libertarians/

        
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