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This is why I describe myself as "Left-Center", I fucking hate tankies, and honestly I'm getting tired of... How to describe this without sounding like a dick?
I'm getting tired of people trying to be offended on behalf of groups who they feel should be offended by something, I'm getting tired of people who want to LARP that they're making the world a better more tolerant place when really they're just ruining media with pointless censorship.
Many of both groups are on the Left.
However I am fully lucid of the fact that pretty much every problem in my life is because Far Right Boomers hold way too much power, so if it ultimately comes down to Left or Right, (which it has, have you seen the world situation lately?) then it's the Left for me.
Plus I don't want to be mistaken for one of those bad faith "Bar Nazi" types. You know the kind: "Personally, I think the nation is too divided, lots of bad people on both sides... Now let me exclusively criticize the Left while dropping some blatant dogwhistles."
Replace "tankies" with "woke" and this comment just becomes exactly the same comment a far right chud would say.
If you're concerned about being "mistaken" for a bar nazi then perhaps you should not say things a bar nazi would say?
Criticizing other leftists doesn't make you a "bar nazi"
Yes it does, shut the fuck up and open your eyes
For fuck's sake open your fucking eyes
As long as someone writes the word tankies in a comment you morons will agree with it even if the writer is practically goosestepping.
Honestly, who cares as long as he's actively trying to help the targets of Nazis protect themselves from Nazis? Right now, the left needs all the help they can get, and according to real human rights organizations that study genocide -- and the U.S. is at a hard stage 7 right now -- moderates are the only ones that can stop the aggressors.
So let's stop worrying about all that dumb shit and get rid of the Nazis, then we can fight over dumb petty political shit.
He's not helping the targets of nazis by complaining about people being allies or "censorship", which is just code for not being able to say transphobic and racist bollocks.
How is it so difficult for you to realise that "on behalf of groups" is just another way of saying "allies". If I rephrase this using the language of the lgbt community instead of the carefully chosen language used to mask its intention it's literally just saying "I don't think people should be allies, I'm tired of it."
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