Those who believe MN is more leftists, what makes you think so?

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Because to me MN has always come off much more right / conservative.

So, if you can point out what makes it so leftist.

I can confidently say, I find MN extremely left. The amount of posters that are so fucking rude & condescending uptight to those with views different to theirs is frankly awful. Calling people stupid, telling them to educate themselves etc if they have a different opinion.

14 years of tories or tory bot is just so lame & just makes me totally switch off & cringe but it’s just so ‘now’ on here.

I can't, it seems very right leaning to me. And not just In a few posters giving opinions, but in that there are some really unpleasant bigoted views that are expressed so confidently that it is clear for many people it is a 'safe space' to expect to express these views relatively unchallenged.
Makes me so sad to read some of the narrow minded, judgmental, bigoted, racist, transphobic rhetoric on here. I really need to cut the site out of my favourites, it's not a good place to hang around for my MH.

I believe life begins at birth, not at conception. I defend every woman's right to decide whether a pregnancy continues to term. Much more controversially, I think there should be less interventions to deliver pre-term and marginal health babies... because we are now so good at it that we are handing our communities a lifelong and very costly responsibility to fund 40 or 50 years of life at unlimited public expense. I am sorry because that sounds cold.

I completely agree with you. Heroic measures are not always best and life begins at birth.

I think you pick up on stuff you don’t agree with, or click of thread you either strongly agree with or don’t.

I am pretty centrist with left leanings - but I do see both sides on here and I think the left side comes across more aggressively so with lots of hyperbole and purity spirals - so it isn't about talking points - it is the lack of talking points, refusing to debate and a casting of people disagreeing as evil and far right.

Completely deluded. As evidenced by the photos of their decidedly average looking cats which they think are cute and funny.

I think that's a pretty awful thing to write on a site where many parents will have children with disabilities (whether through premature birth, birth injuries or other causes). Their children are not burdens on the state, it is right that the state values their lives.

(Which, yes,I agree begin at birth not conception.)

Doesn't it depend on the type of threads you click on? I read a lot of education threads, and I don't get the impression that many of the posters are left wing at all.

I'm very central in my views and agree with some left and right ideologies.
The left definitely seems more emotional and vernally aggressive against any right views.
The far right are aggressive but generally, the right leaning people seem to be more matter of fact and don't resort to name calling.
The aggression they get puts them off from posting their views.
But, I feel that society is quietly moving towards the right more.

Those threads are merely named after the current prime minister and have had the same core posters through many changes of PM in recent years.

I’m American so you’re all lefty to me 🤣.

As an outsider though… I think it’s fairly even…but does lean a little left.

I think it’s a mixture of conformation bias and self selection of posters.

The other thing that seems quite right wing to me on here are the often quite fawning posts about the royals.

In other words, pro-women.
On a site of mums, shocking.

That view does extend to IVF and surrogacy. They're wrong.

Prostitution is as old as time also. Doesn't mean we should celebrate and encourage it.

That's OK, we will be liquidating non productive adultstock before we know it too.

Overton window has shifted to the right in general. The right tend to view anything liberal as left wing as well and MN can still be liberal on some things.

This makes sense.

Plenty of rich people here, but also as they're mainly women they see the value of funding public services for education, health and childcare.

Is there much left wing about Starmer's Labour?

The actual left wing hate them.

I think it depends on how you define left wing. I think it's pretty centrist with a good dollop of authoritarianism.

Women, as a percentage, are more likely to vote left than men.

Not at all actually. I've seen more pro-Christian messages and very few anti-Christian ones.

It's very much centrist. Centrist is only left wing if the Overton window has shifted further right.

Centre is centre.

Pro choice isn’t exclusively left wing; pro forced birth is exclusively right wing I’ll agree.

Christianity isn’t right wing. If you think it is, it’s a while since you’ve read the New Testament.

Not that it is a left v right issue in the UK anyway. You're using American categorisations.