Reference: Political Values Line
Rick Retro’s Reference Rundown #18: Viewpoint Block, (Judeo-Christian) Political Values Line
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Following the body of the review, the Footer Block and the Content Block is the Viewpoint Block, where I analyze the viewpoint of the work reviewed.
The fourth and final line of the Viewpoint Block is the (Judeo-Christian) Political Values Line.
The (Judeo-Christian) Political Values Line might look like one of these examples:
🗽 -4 ➕🗽🗽🗽🕰️🕰️🕰️🏦
🗽 +0 ➕🗽📜💛💛 ➖💻💻☠️
🗽 +2 ➕🟨🟨🚓🏛️
🗽 -3 ➖💻💻💻🫄🫄🫄
🗽 (Judeo-Christian) Political Values are rated from +4 to -4
This rating measures whether the viewpoint of the work is favorable or unfavorable towards Judeo-Christian political and social values, such as God-given rights, freedom, equality, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. This includes whether individuals are judged on their own merit or stereotyped as members of a group.
+4: Very Strongly Favorable
+3: Strongly Favorable
+2: Moderately Favorable
+1: Slightly Favorable
+0: There are no positive or negative biases shown against Judeo-Christian political values or mixed messages cancel each other out. Or the viewpoint of the work about Judeo-Christian political values is not discernible or clear.
-0: The viewpoint of the work does not agree with Judeo-Christian political values, but the work has no agenda against them. It assumes you already agree with its contrary viewpoint and seeks to entertain without advocating its viewpoint or a non-Judeo-Christian agenda.
-1: Slightly Unfavorable
-2: Moderately Unfavorable
-3: Heavily Unfavorable
-4: Extremely Unfavorable
The (Judeo-Christian) Political Values rating can be followed by emojis that indicate positive or negative messages put forth in the work that impact the rating.
An emoji can be used up to three times indicating a light, moderate or heavy negative impact on the ratings. An emoji in parentheses indicates a positive or negative bias clearly held by the work, but perhaps only referenced in passing, not promoted. In these cases, the work is typically assuming you share similar values, while being more focused on entertaining you than persuading you. (Many works also assume you share their values while still promoting or even glorifying those values. In such a case the emoji will not be in parentheses.)
➕Positive Explanatory Emojis
🗽 Pro-Judeo-Christian political and social values, anti-PC values
🕰️ Historically accurate (portrays history truthfully, correctly highlighting the impact of Christian, Biblical and Judeo-Christian political values on historical events, or accurately portraying events that contradict the current PC narrative)
📜 Promotes American constitutional values, conservatism, individual freedom, democracy, populism, anti-progressivism, anti-authoritarianism
🇺🇸 Pro-American, patriotic, pro-nationalist, pro-fair trade, anti-globalist/anti-internationalist, includes supporting justified warfare and opposing illegal immigration (also includes patriotism/nationalism found in countries other than America, if those countries generally follow Judeo-Christian political values)
🏦 Pro-free markets, individual property rights, low taxation, disapproves of entitled greed and grift, anti-socialist, anti-communist
🟨 Promotes honesty, integrity, self-sacrifice for others in public servants for the public good or to achieve Judeo-Christian political goals
🚓 Pro-police, anti-crime
🏛️ Advocates for justice, law-and-order, equal justice, constitutionalist judges, pro-death penalty
💛 Disapproves of racial slurs, disparaging racial stereotypes, racial discrimination (including reverse discrimination against whites)
🤱 Pro-life, anti-abortion
➖Negative Explanatory Emojis
💻 PC viewpoint (at odds with Judeo-Christian values, individualism, expresses Anti-Christian, anti-conservative or anti-Republican bigotry, promotes currently popular left-wing “progressive” political values, such as leftist climate policy, social justice, diversity, equity and inclusion, promotes tokenistic or “re-imagined” casting, co-exists with and may include humanist, romanticist and pagan viewpoints, includes environmentalist, homosexual and transgender viewpoints)
⏰ Revisionist history (a subset of the PC viewpoint that portrays history falsely, imposing modern leftist values on historical events, or selectively portrays true events while ignoring other historical truths in order to promote a false unbalanced narrative)
📢 Authoritarian viewpoint (a humanist political viewpoint antithetical to freedom, democracy, and individualism, may coexist with political views considered left-wing or right-wing. Favors censorship, gun control and big government elitist control over the population.)
🇺🇳 Globalist/internationalist viewpoint (a humanist anti-American, anti-patriotic, anti-nationalist political viewpoint, includes promoting illegal immigration, and anti-American “free-trade” agreements)
💲 Anti-free markets, anti-wealth, promotes high taxation, class envy, stereotypes the wealthy, promotes entitled greed and grift, get rich quick schemes, and/or gambling
🇻🇳 Socialist viewpoint (a humanist political viewpoint promoting government redistribution of wealth)
🇨🇳 Communist viewpoint (a humanist political viewpoint similar to socialism, but more authoritarian, usually prohibiting religion and ownership of private property)
🟫 Promotes or glorifies selfishness, lying, deception, dishonesty in public servants for personal gain or to achieve PC political goals (ends justify the means)
🤕 Anarchist viewpoint (favors chaos, against law and order)
☠️ Anti-police, pro-crime viewpoint
🙈 Mistrusts equal justice, advocates “equity”, activist judges, social justice, anti-death penalty
🤎 Promotes racial slurs, disparaging racial stereotypes, racial discrimination (including reverse discrimination against whites)
🫄 Pro-abortion, anti-life
This line may be followed by a line of explanation to include or clarify info not easily explained by the emojis. More significant discussion may be included in the body of the review.
Originally posted to text group 2025-01-27
Last updated 2025-02-06
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