Why Liberal is Called The Right & Labor Is Called The Left :D

[windrake]

I have often wondered why it is that Liberals are called the "right" and Labor is called the "left."

By chance I was sent this from a mate who read it in verses of the Bible:

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left".

Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Also, Matthew 25:33 . . .

He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

So, sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can't get any simpler than that!!!  :^O:^O]:)

Think that says it all :^O They will be Gonski in September. They are so on the nose that people can't wait to Gonski them :^O They will live & die with the Gonski ]:)

[kengillard]

mmmm    depends on whether you believe th bilble or not?

  :^O

[lakeland27]

they are both centrist parties.  its a somewhat outmoded description, although the libs are lurching to the loony right more everyday. (bernardi etc etc)

[lakeland27]

the speaker says 'those on my left ' which is where the libs and nats sit .

[waterlilycat]

mmmm    depends on whether you believe th bilble or not?

  :^O

]:)  the debil made me do it ]:)

[the_great_she_elephant]

The notion of right = good, left=bad derives from  from the same superstitious mindset that approved the burning of witches. Left was seen as sinister (which is actually the Latin word for left)

When there were no racial or religious minorities to persecute lefties were a useful scapegoat. And superstitions prevail - even when  we don't even realise that is what they are. I'm sure there are posters here who still  remember (Mr Elephant certainly does) getting whacked across the knuckles with a ruler for daring to write with his left hand.

[lynnie3024]

I sure remember getting whacked across the knuckles but the nuns who taught me went one better...they tied your left arm to your side, preventing you from using it at all.

They referred to us children as "cursed"...very christian of them...NOT.

Could explain why my handwriting is so terrible and always has been.

[rabbitearbandicoot]

I think it's more of a play on words

ie 'left is right and right is left wrong'. That's the way I have always thought of it anyway ..:-x

[rabbitearbandicoot]

another example ...

we were out driving one day and my bil knew the way to go - where to turn etc - I didn't (I was driving).

We were coming up to an intersection and I said "we turn left up here don't we?" the bil said 'right' so I turned right.... 😮

[newstart2380]

I sure remember getting whacked across the knuckles but the nuns who taught me went one better...they tied your left arm to your side, preventing you from using it at all.

They referred to us children as "cursed"...very christian of them...NOT.

Could explain why my handwriting is so terrible and always has been.

 Me to, I had my left hand tied into the belt on my tunic and had to write with my right hand, I can still do things with my left hand without thinking but I was at an Anglican school so it was the same across the board.