• MyPornAlt@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    I’m all for the idea of wokeness, but there are those that take it to an extreme. Those that would silence a black man making a honest case for color-blindness, calling him racist. Those that won’t put in any thought before declaring anyone who disagrees with them a racist/transphobe/xenophobe etc etc etc.

    There is room for honest discussion and critical thinking, but there is this mob mentality ultraleft (and yea this exists in the right too) that seems incapable of critical thought and only capable of hating anything that opposes the groupthink.

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      1 year ago

      Can you give us a good example that is exclusive to the ultra left, which doesn’t involve bigotry or “just asking questions” talking points?

      Otherwise, the whole groupthink problem is a much wider issue, and why the two party system in the US is a problem.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, no it is an everybody issue. It’s just what puts me off from people I otherwise frequently agree with.

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      1 year ago

      you can always tell when someone has said something terrible and got called a fascist/nazi for it because they say stuff like this

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        1 year ago

        It couldn’t be that I watched a talk like this:

        https://youtu.be/QxB3b7fxMEA?si=_HLVoBr0moJg6Mkb

        And liked the ideas, but then see that it’s being used to call the speaker racist and attempts at silencing him. Plus the unwillingness to even have a conversation.

        https://youtu.be/KKZlb-MdzKo?si=bohTJwhwMD9QehI-

        You vilify the idea of “just asking questions” to the point that no one can ask questions. That leaves me standing here, not understanding your position, but unwilling to blindly accept everything I’m told to think.

        Sure, there are people who weaponize “just asking questions”, but is the solution really just to call every person with a contrary opinion a fucking nazi?

        Edit: is anyone willing to tell me how the ideas in the first video are racist and worthy of silencing the person who speaks them?

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        1 year ago

        You know, it’s possible to be a leftist and still not agree 100% with the everything.

        The response to my comment is precisely what I hate about the left. And yet, I’m still so much more aligned with the left that I could ever be with the right.