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Comment author: blacktrance 04 January 2015 07:58:15PM 9 points [-]

As Arnold Kling suggests, progressives think of issues on an oppressor-oppressed axis. Women, poor people, and immigrants are all seen as oppressed, which is why feminism, raising the minimum wage, and support for more immigration are positions that are often found together.

Comment author: Prismattic 04 January 2015 09:59:40PM 2 points [-]

In my experience, libertarians tend to think highly of Arnold Kling's taxonomy, and liberals and conservatives do not. I regard it as a Turing test fail.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 04 January 2015 10:22:18PM 1 point [-]

Can you expand on the last sentence?

Comment author: fubarobfusco 04 January 2015 10:46:18PM 3 points [-]

The Ideological Turing Test is a concept invented by American economist Bryan Caplan to test whether a political or ideological partisan correctly understands the arguments of his or her intellectual adversaries. The partisan is invited to answer questions or write an essay posing as his opposite number; if neutral judges cannot tell the difference between the partisan's answers and the answers of the opposite number, the candidate is judged to correctly understand the opposing side.

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