Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative

Everyone should try to be personally responsible to the best of their capacity. And sometimes, systems really are unfair and really need to be changed. It's not just one or the other.

Tribalism applied to worldview is the greatest casualty of the American political sphere.

I'm not sure how social policies favouring good social and emotional health for people to enable them to have prosperous and stable relationships have anything to do with conservatism. I for one would not qualify such policies like that.

My cynical belief is that the author possesses much more "taboo" conservative beliefs which he justifies with this argument, but hopefully I'm wrong.

Those two values might not always be the most talked about topics on a liberal university campus but they're certainly as American as apple pie and largely unrelated to modern political conservatism as a movement.

"Though they experienced homophobia and struggled financially..."

This particular case aside, why is all negativity towards homosexuality grouped into homophobia? Is anyone who opposes homosexuality afraid of it (in a literal translation)?

The dictionary.com definition of the suffix phobia is:

"a combining form meaning “fear,” occurring in loanwords from Greek ( hydrophobia); on this model, used in the names of mental disorders that have the general sense “dread of, aversion toward” that specified by the initial element:"

What about folks approaching from a standpoint that has neither a dread of, nor an aversion towards homosexuals? Why are they called homophobic?

The liberal argument was never "There is no benefit to having more than one parent." or "It's no big deal if you're raised by a drug addict" Instead, it's that responsible parents have the right to shape their own household, and that as a society we shouldn't judge them for that particular decision, and instead offer support.

Not really seeing the HN relevance of this extremely subjective opinion piece but OK.

Being a foster child did not make him conservative. He was born that way. The tone of the article is that he's very angry that he's "different" and he feels that people look down on him for it (by calling him a victim). Which is understandable. But I think this article serves as therapy for the author. It's certainly not saying anything new or insightful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness#Political_at...

As an aside, the fact that Conscientiousness negatively correlates with intelligence also explains why only 12% of the student body is conservative. He's a rare combination.