You know why the fascists win? Because they get the left to constantly fight amongst ourselves over purity tests. You're not socialist enough, or anarchist enough, or anti-racist enough or using the exact correct language when being a LGBTQ+ ally. It's why we lose, and why our spaces fall apart, why the real enemy runs rampant and destroys our world.
I'm so sick of seeing it, over and over again. Sigh...
@420f26f4 Seriously. Watching a respected POC voice in my feed just up and start wiping their ass with "trans people" made me nauseous.
This isn't about what one specific person said or didn't say or intended. It's a general point about the nature of the left and marginalized groups and our tendency to dissolve into in-fighting.
@420f26f4 the right also has some other advantages: they dont need to care about facts and they have no issue with playing dirty. Also it is much easier to unity agains some vague perceived enemy than in any actual cause.
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And people keep falling for it. You'll have them arguing for it in the replies, I'm sure.
@420f26f4
Yes. But the Left does this to their own far more efficiently than the Right does.
I’m a lifelong progressive & environmental activist. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been publicly and privately shamed - sometimes instantly - because I’m not using the “right“ phrase or term when I’m talking.
Doesn’t matter if I’m not aware of the term.
Doesn’t matter if my intentions were good.
Wrong words = not a progressive = shunned.
FUCK THAT.
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