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If we're at presenting our backgrounds, I cannot speak for what goes in the US under the name of "capitalism" but being raised behind the iron curtain I had to
by soco 3y ago
If we're at presenting our backgrounds, I cannot speak for what goes in the US under the name of "capitalism" but being raised behind the iron curtain I had to study marxism in school. Also as European I think I can pretty well see what labels itself as left or far left (because we do have all of that). So please understand my smirk when I see those labels used by people with only ideological motivation but little to none demonstrated knowledge about the meanings. Smirk, because in this age of ChatGPT when the knowledge is even more right there under our noses, some still prefer to align instead of learn.
- mjburgess 3y agoThe words mean all what they ought
- partitioned 3y agoYou might want to look into 'deep-seated lack of humility'
- mjburgess 3y agoI just find it an amusing way to talk, circumstantially. Since it places a sort of ironic lack of humility against the supposed humility and good-faith of another, and there's an interesting dynamic there. I have an extremely dry sense of humor that does get me intro trouble. Here I was speaking very literally, and yet by using phrases like 'far left' taken to be signalling something non-literal. In doing this I was splitting the audience into those looking for dogwhistles and those reading what i've said. If someone replied having read what i'd said, i'd take quite a different tone. That someone reacted superficially, to supposed implications that didn't exist -- well, that doesnt great any obligation on me to be anything other than ironic.
- soco 3y agoLooks also like a Dunning Kruger effect. Luckily it's only a HN storm in a teacup.