Politics
Well, due to emilisha, I have gone and done this here quiz:
You are a
Social Liberal
(70% permissive)
and an...
Economic Liberal
(5% permissive)
You are best described as a:
Socialist
Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid
I am always frustrated by quizzes that try to place you on the political spectrum based on answers to ten or twenty questions, and while I do admire the effort these folks have made to expand that one-dimensional spectrum to a two-dimensional plane, I am still not super-enthused about this one.
It's just, I think these things will always annoy me because there is no way for them to thoroughly communicate how completely constructed these continuums always are--someone (or many of us together) decided what topics would be the main categories by which we judged, and someone decided what we would call the middle and someone decided where the ends would be and that they would be called the ends, or the fringes, or radical. So it's not like these categories are objective. But it is like these categories are frighteningly self-fulfilling. I wish they weren't. But since they are, I guess I wish we could ignore them. Ugh.
Anyway, in my mood of vague frustration about that, I stumbled across this test, also on OKCupid, which bills itself as "The Non-Idiotic Politics Test" and was written by someone who was fed up with the narcissistic partisan political identifications and the reflections thereupon in which we North Americans so often engage. I'm glad to see that this dumbass thing we do around here is perhaps (maybe?) not a worldwide phenomenon (as we often assume it is), and I do admire the person's sentiment. But I'm totally embarrassed to say that I definitely bombed that quiz--only narrowly over 50 percent right. I'm now in the process of researching all the questions I got wrong so that next time I won't be so ashamed of myself.
What's that thing that really smart wise person once said? Something or another about logs in people's eyes? I guess I'll have to study up before I get too pissed off at the next "which political party are you?" quiz. Because the truth is, it isn't just that I scored badly on some guy's world politics quiz. In the end, that not too much to be ashamed of. But if I am completely honest with myself, I am pretty proud to come out as a socialist on these quizzes every time I do it. Yeah, it annoys me, but I'll admit it: I buy into it, too.
You are a
Social Liberal
(70% permissive)
and an...
Economic Liberal
(5% permissive)
You are best described as a:
Socialist
Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid
I am always frustrated by quizzes that try to place you on the political spectrum based on answers to ten or twenty questions, and while I do admire the effort these folks have made to expand that one-dimensional spectrum to a two-dimensional plane, I am still not super-enthused about this one.
It's just, I think these things will always annoy me because there is no way for them to thoroughly communicate how completely constructed these continuums always are--someone (or many of us together) decided what topics would be the main categories by which we judged, and someone decided what we would call the middle and someone decided where the ends would be and that they would be called the ends, or the fringes, or radical. So it's not like these categories are objective. But it is like these categories are frighteningly self-fulfilling. I wish they weren't. But since they are, I guess I wish we could ignore them. Ugh.
Anyway, in my mood of vague frustration about that, I stumbled across this test, also on OKCupid, which bills itself as "The Non-Idiotic Politics Test" and was written by someone who was fed up with the narcissistic partisan political identifications and the reflections thereupon in which we North Americans so often engage. I'm glad to see that this dumbass thing we do around here is perhaps (maybe?) not a worldwide phenomenon (as we often assume it is), and I do admire the person's sentiment. But I'm totally embarrassed to say that I definitely bombed that quiz--only narrowly over 50 percent right. I'm now in the process of researching all the questions I got wrong so that next time I won't be so ashamed of myself.
What's that thing that really smart wise person once said? Something or another about logs in people's eyes? I guess I'll have to study up before I get too pissed off at the next "which political party are you?" quiz. Because the truth is, it isn't just that I scored badly on some guy's world politics quiz. In the end, that not too much to be ashamed of. But if I am completely honest with myself, I am pretty proud to come out as a socialist on these quizzes every time I do it. Yeah, it annoys me, but I'll admit it: I buy into it, too.