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Oh no, someone dares to question the left-authoritarian talking points. Better shut that discussion down.
by Kenji 7y ago
Oh no, someone dares to question the left-authoritarian talking points. Better shut that discussion down.
- dang 7y agoI assumed the writer was posting from the opposite ideological position. But frankly, we don't care or even much look at that. When your job is to do the same thing over and over, after a few hundred thousand times you tend to see only the relevant bits in the mask.
- Kenji 7y agoThe thing is: It's flame-bait simply because it's a sentiment that is so prevalent here. It's flame bait because there is a breed of people who lose their shit over it, and that breed is a large fraction of the visitors of this website. There is nothing remotely controversial in what dvt said. Nobody would bat an eye about it at my workplace, for example. You have to be aware of the monoculture here.
- dang 7y agoIt was flamebait because it originally included "Oh is that not political either? It must be nice having the spinal rigidity of a mollusk." dvt was thoughtful enough to edit it above.
- pc86 7y agoThe comment is still live with positive votes, I don't think anyone is shutting anything down.
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- ergothus 7y agodang has called me out for degrading a conversation in the past. dang was correct then, and the comment replied to IS degrading the conversation as described. You don't have to be wrong to be expressing it poorly or unconstructively.
- whateveracct 7y ago"left-authoritarian" is an oxymoron. The left is pretty diverse, but anti-authoritarianism is a common thread. Actually - worse - it's a talking point used to defang actual authoritarianism rising in the world today via false equivalence.
- Sessions 7y agoThis is not true. Left/Right and Authoritarian/Liberty are separate and overlapping spectrums. Pick your favorite post-communist-revolution country as an example of Left-authoritarianism.
- DougPhillips88 7y agoYeah, that must be why the left is in a constant cycle of eating their own and cancelling each other. All the diversity of opinion and "inclusivity".
- least 7y agoI think antifascism is probably more the common thread on the left than anti-authoritarian; the distinction being that fascism is largely associated with right wing authoritarianism. The left still supports authoritarian policies. Some examples of this include gun control and censorship of hate speech.
- dangthecoward 7y agoDang's job is to maintain the echo chamber, not encourage actual thought and discussion.