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Serious question: what far-left subreddits? Not trying for snark, I really don't know what the left equivalent of like... /r/DylannRoofInnocent would be on redd

• spaceflunky 9y ago
  /r/latestagecapitalism and the plethora of antifa subreddits often call for violence against anyone that doesn't agree with them.
  • gt_ 9y ago
    It should be clarified that late stage capitalism critique and antifa do not have any ideological or associational overlap. The former is theory limited to effects of economic relations, while the latter is a reactionary-by-nature political call to action. I realize this is not obvious in the names. Fears from raised awareness of late stage capitalism would not by any sound logic even motivate assiciation with something like Antifa. It would more likely inform and divert one’s alignment with something like that. In my view, one would have to be willfully ignorant to deny the first, and willfully ignorant to align with the latter. In my view, this is a pretty good example of why censoring these conversations is a terrible solution. It can only serve to limit our ability to have nuanced understandings about the world we live in.
    • observation 9y ago
      For what it is worth I'd be categorized as far right and I agree with the spirit of what you're saying. There are a lot of failure modes in politics and the widely held feeling that if only we nipped the 'extremes' at either end of the spectrum and everything would be alright, that is bunk. I continue to see a conflation of violent extremism and how far the political orientation is from the center of politics. One of the most important failures of the political spectrum model is the inability to recognize the center is a homogeneous place while the edges are extremely diverse. Like everything else it's a tree structure. As I see it the most important error in recent years was the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions. That didn't come about as a result of far right extremism or far left agitating. Broadly speaking neither faction wanted the war, so it must have come from the center. It irks me that most attention is paid to the handful of violent ideologues, when the worst strategic errors are overlooked because they are closer to the center and have a body of political support. This is not a coherent way to police political violence.
• swalsh 9y ago
  Not saying it's equivalent..... But there is /r/SocialistRA/ its a place where people are actively organizing armed groups for the purpose of a theoretical future communist revolution :\ I hung around there for a bit, as a liberal supporter of the second amendment, and advocate for socialized healthcare... but when I clarified their positions, I found them to be far more extreme then I was personally comfortable with.
  • tomtheelder 9y ago
    Had never heard of that, just popped in there. Definitely seems like it falls into the same group as some of these banned subs. A lot of just generic gun related content, but then a fair number of posts about killing political adversaries. Didn't have to scroll down very far to find a post about having a large magazine so as to be able to kill many racists. Not good, should get banned under new policy IMO.
  • floatingatoll 9y ago
    You should report them to Reddit!