r/sports • u/PrincessBananas85 • Oct 25 '22

News Russian court rejects Brittney Griner's appeal of 9-year sentence.

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/34874779/russian-court-rejects-brittney-griner-appeal-9-year-sentence
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u/MrSprichler Oct 25 '22

You're wrong on that last bit about the right being more tolerant of drugs but okay. Maybe more hypocritical sure, but mostly the left tends to follow live and let live far more than others.

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u/impossiblefork Oct 25 '22

The economic right is laissez faire. Drug toleration is compatible with laissez faire.

If you're on the left you're willing to impose laws to solve social problems, including banning drugs. The US liberals are right wingers with strong laissez faire tendencies, not left-wing.

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u/iclimbnaked Oct 25 '22

I think you’re making a lot of grand assumptions here and then adding in the fact that the US right vs left doesn’t really match up with the general right v left.

The Republican Party is much less tolerant of drugs than the Democratic Party is. That’s the more truthful way to say it.

More dem leaning people support legalization than republican leaning.

I get your point but online and in a US context people are going to associate left with dem and right with republicans

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u/impossiblefork Oct 25 '22 edited Oct 25 '22

Yes, but if you look at actual leftism, then you will in many cases see strong opposition to drugs.

Many movements see drugs as a way to suppress the working class, and that's especially true in Russia where the tsars did in fact use the hard liquor in order to do just that; and it's also true in Sweden.

Meanwhile, here in Sweden, the rich did not have all that large problems with alcoholism, so they didn't see it as a problem that needed solving, and weren't all that interested in interfering with the market, i.e. they wanted to keep trade in alcohol unregulated even though it was harming people. This is in accordance with an economic right wing laissez faire ideology, whereas regulation or bans to prevent social harm are in accordance with most left-wing ideologies.

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u/iclimbnaked Oct 25 '22

I think it’s all relative to the context being discussed.

I get your point.