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> a lot of wrongs they want to address (but that’s not a devil) Isn't it? The wrongs can end up portrayed as devilishly apocalyptic. American capitalism is co
by retrac 3y ago
> a lot of wrongs they want to address (but that’s not a devil)
Isn't it? The wrongs can end up portrayed as devilishly apocalyptic. American capitalism is consuming everything and might cause the extinction of life on the planet. The American state is intrinsically racist, founded on extractive unequal principles, to benefit the elites. The police serve solely as the protective arm of capital. The failure to appropriately censor incitement to hatred against LGBTQ people is literally genocide against gender-varying people.
I don't think the above is downright caricature? That is, one could find an American making those sort of statements pretty easily. (I've seen such things here in the HN comments.) I personally believe a weaker version of most of those claims. But I don't ramp it up to 11 like some people, who seem to need an incarnated, unambiguous evil to fight against.
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- ModernMech 3y ago> Try talking to someone on the left about… You talk to plenty of them here all the time, and they are willing to give you perfectly logical and cogent arguments. What’s with the broad brushing? > This is happening increasingly, and mostly from the left. Citations needed. And if you can’t provide them, aren’t you the one arguing from belief?
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- ipaddr 3y agoIn general the left assigns a mortality to an issue rather than view something from objective viewpoint. Are trans rights a human right or an objective idea to be discussed by anyone? If a person can choose a gender identity why isn't it rational for someone to be able to choose a racial identity?
- rayiner 3y agoSpecifically, they have turned "human rights" (a concept rooted in religion) into the basis for an individualistic humanist quasi-religion.
- watwut 3y agoThe homosexual argument does not checks out at all. All around the world and history, making kids to reproduce was not an issue at all. The rather small amount of homosexuals not having sex with opposite gender would not be an issue at all for them. Keeping kids alive was an issue. Preventing yet another kid after you had 7 and little resources was an issue. Surviving childbirth especially first one, was an issue. We ceased to have many kids only after contraception. So you do not hear that argument, because it is historically unlikely to be true and is just a rationalization.
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