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  • antidote101@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    It looks a lot like you’re trying to alienate other leftists from your position, rather than actually make any reasonable arguments for your own beliefs.

    Don’t you ever feel like you’re betraying your own beliefs when you go for over simplified attacks.

    Like using “liberal” as an insult… I mean, it suggests your preferred ideology would be a kind of fascism or authoritarianism. Something without social liberalism.

    I mean, you’re obviously frustrated and a believer that any serious discussion would be futile… So why not just walk away rather than damaging your own political position?

    Haven’t you learned how to argue your positions using someone else’s values?

    Just seems like you’re the biggest liberal, like you’re doing a big show of the freedoms of political discourse, showing how you’re free to be rude. Showing you’re openly avoiding constructive discussion, and not realising that’s still discussion.

    It’s a very liberal thing to do.

    …and I’m not sure of the purpose but it doesn’t seem to be bolstering any other political position. Just seems to reproduce a culture in which the far left are under represented and seen as unreasonable. One where it’s seen as just and right to not have a popular Marxist party and to lock that particular rhetoric out.

    Why so blatantly lean into the agenda that’s so obviously what economic liberals prefer. Doesn’t that just enforce the hegemonic false consciousness that works against you and your politics???

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      7 months ago

      It looks a lot like you’re trying to alienate other leftists

      What leftists?

      Like using “liberal” as an insult…

      That’s because it is an insult.

      Something without social liberalism.

      Yes, please.

      and not realising that’s still discussion.

      Good thing you told me, then.

      Just seems to reproduce a culture in which the far left are under represented and seen as unreasonable.

      There is such a thing as a “far left” now? Where’d you get that from? PragerU?