Talk:Girchi

Name

The party has dropped "New Political Center" from its name a while ago, and it's just "Girchi", as for now. The article should be updated appropriately. — Giorgi Gzirishvili (T · C), 14:06, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

I actually tried to change the page's name and you reversed my change, so not sure why the comment... AlexandreAssatiani (talk) 15:35, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

I don't think that's accurate. I went through the history and I didn't find anything like that. Also, I think I would remember. If I'm mistaken, feel free to correct me and link the exact version. — Giorgi Gzirishvili (T · C), 22:23, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

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Bias in Activism Section

Some of the language in this section (and article) seems really biased towards Girchi, e.g. "There was no reaction from law-enforcement agencies, which proved once again how absurd the legislation prohibiting citizens to play lotto or organise a lottery is."

Also, lots of inline citations are to primary sources (facebook posts from the party) — Preceding unsigned comment added by SonorianBnS (talk • contribs) 01:12, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Not a right-wing party

Right-wing refers to conservative values. The party is culturally very left-leaning and economically it follows classical liberal (American speak: fiscal conservative) principles. Labelling it as "right-wing" because they lean right economically is misleading. Read: Political spectrum. - 185.115.6.225 (talk) 09:51, 25 May 2022 (UTC)

Party propaganda

Party's wikipedia pages should be well-sourced and objective. What user @213.200.31.125 has brought back is pure party propaganda and is taken from their website. What is not taken from their website either doesn't support whats written on the article or is just original research or extremely poorly written.

Legalizing drugs, prostitution, and abolishing compulsory military service are socially liberal aka leftist ideas. Girchi is an libertarian party and Libertarian parties are generally economically very right-wing and socially left-wing. Here is an analytical source analyzing Georgian parties including Girchi and placing it on the political compass:

https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/georgien/18417-20220419.pdf https://southcaucasus.fes.de/news-list/e/georgias-political-landscape.html

For the European integration part, Girchi supports European Union membership, but Pro-Europeanism is a different ideology. It is an ideology that supports a larger stronger EU and Girchi is very much opposed to that. Their ideology falls squarely into Soft-Euroscepticism camp. Soft-Euroscepticist parties are not opposed to EU membership, but they are opposed to a larger Europe.

"The party has described themselves as “critics of Europe”. Khvichia referred to their position as “ambitious”, stating that they want to join the EU, without agreeing to all the demands they set. He further criticized the ruling Georgian Dream government for following “every crazy regulation” that the EU sets out as membership criteria, stating that they do it only for their own “business interests”. The party support free movement, free trade, and protection that the European Union provides, however, criticize “European bureaucracy”, “European regulations”, and “socialist ideas” that are present within European societies. They have further gone on to say that they agree with some “Western values”, while at the same time heavily disavow others. Khvichia has praised the multiculturalism that exists in Europe and praised Western societies as being generally successful."

"Thirdly, it is of course " genius" to remove from the main text the description of the party that they SAY they are on their OFFICIAL website, and write their own. It seems to me that they have more of a clue themselves" - yes analysts have "more of a clue" than the party itself and party propaganda should not be uncritically put into the lead of an article. Find a single third-party source that supports any of what you claim. Zlad! (talk) 13:12, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

I can compromise on some stuff.

fiscal: right wing, social: centre-left is backed up by sources, but I do see an argument for political positions to just remain as Right-Wing (like Libertarian parties being generally considered right-wing regardless of their position and the party's socially conservative drift since the party split). Zlad! (talk) 13:47, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Speaking of positions, Far-right isn't usually a label used to describe fiscal policies and is usually reserved for social ones. If I'm wrong, I'm willing to let this label stay. Zlad! (talk) 15:00, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

"Despite commonly being categorized as a right-wing party, it supports many left-wing social policies like drug liberalization, sex work legalization, and the abolition of military conscription" - that's really not accurate here.

First of all, the abolition of military conscription is not an exclusively left-wing policy. And it's not really accurate to claim that it is. Yes, we can look at it from a leftist perspective, that it's pacifism, anti-militarism.

But from a right-wing perspective: individual liberty, limited (minimal) government.

There's a need for context here, as Girchi explains this view. They believe that a person's body is their property, and the state should be minimized to the point where it cannot take a person into the military against their will. It's a right-wing perspective. To claim that this is an exclusively left-wing policy is wrong, especially given the context.

As for the next two social policies, you can't claim that they are exclusively left-wing either. They can be looked at in terms of limited government, economic and individual freedom.

Based on the above, I think it is a misstatement to say that the party "supports many left-wing social policies" because these social policies cannot be described exclusively left-wing. This needs context, and I have provided it. So I think it is correct to remove this statement, and just leave that Girchi supports these positions, but without saying that these positions are left-wing, since all the more reason to consider why Girchi supports them, and they do, from a right-libertarian position. And these positions are not exclusively leftist as I say. This page is about Girchi, so it's important.

I suggest replacing with this: "Girchi supports policies like drug liberalization, sex work legalization, and the abolition of military conscription effectively making Girchi one of the most socially liberal parties in Georgia". (Remove the text about these positions being left-wing, as this may mislead people, because these social policies are not exclusively left-wing, they can also be viewed from the right-wing perspective, from which Girchi is looking at them) 213.200.31.125 (talk) 07:58, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

So the main disagreement is about whether we consider socially Liberal policies socially left-wing policies, right? That is what it boils down to. I think its established that those two terms are synonyms. I used them just so I did not repeat Socially liberal two times.

But I digress and I want to find out someone else’s opinion on this.@ValenciaThunderbolt do you have any idea about the way that contentious paragraph can be rewritten that would end this clash? Thanks. Zlad! (talk) 10:24, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Writing for an ideological standpoint is better than a political position, so writing it from the former is better than the latter. ValenciaThunderbolt (talk) 12:58, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Do you mean writing Socially Liberal is better than Left-wing? Both are used here.

"Despite commonly being categorized as a right-wing party, it supports many left-wing social policies like drug liberalization, sex work legalization, and the abolition of military conscription effectively making Girchi one of the most socially liberal parties in Georgia. The party, however, supports other more traditionally right-wing social issues like gun rights and unrestricted freedom of speech and has called "Wokeism" a "modern type of communism"."

How would you rewrite this or do you think it is fine as it is? Zlad! (talk) 13:43, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I'd rewrite it as "Despite commonly being categorized as a right-wing party, it supports many socially policies like drug liberalization, sex work legalization, unrestricted freedom of speech, and the abolition of military conscription, effectively making Girchi one of the most socially liberal parties in Georgia. The party, however, supports some traditionally conservative issues like gun rights and has called "wokeism" a "modern type of communism". ValenciaThunderbolt (talk) 13:49, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

lol, you have a typo at the most contentious part. What does "supports many socially policies" mean? Zlad! (talk) 16:03, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

I'm fine with the way ValenciaThunderbolt rewrote it. I think it's more accurate. Let's do it that way and end the disagreement.

Just a little fix and that's it:

"Despite commonly being categorized as a right-wing party, it supports social policies like drug liberalization, sex work legalization, unrestricted freedom of speech, and the abolition of military conscription, effectively making Girchi one of the most socially liberal parties in Georgia. The party, however, supports other more traditionally right-wing social issues like gun rights and unrestricted freedom of speech and has called "Wokeism" a "modern type of communism"" 213.200.31.125 (talk) 21:55, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Okay perfect. Zlad! (talk) 22:15, 10 July 2024 (UTC)