Anonymous #2 6d

The left has its flaws but just because I see some random woman say “all men are bad” doesnt make me want to deport all immigrants

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Anonymous OP 6d

I’m more talking about the infighting amongst the left and the lack of willingness to educate others. I see what you mean though

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Anonymous #2 6d

Lack of educating I get but it can be frustrating to be told to educate someone who hates your very existence (also the right has crazy amounts of infighting they just unite for elections)

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Anonymous #2 6d

“The right doesn’t do that” The right calls me slurs.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 6d

Oh I don’t doubt that at all and I’m sorry to hear that. What I was getting at is they unify on common ground, take you in, and try convince you of their other beliefs. The impression a newcomer to the left gets is “oh you believe XYZ? fucking bootlicker. educate yourself, google is free”

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Anonymous #2 6d

Okay, there’s a few problems with that though. I try to refrain from saying anything like that with people on the right *until* they say something like how they enjoy the admin putting the military in cities, or supporting ICE. In that scenario, am I not supposed to call them a bootlicker?

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 6d

No, that’s valid. There are some people who don’t even wait until that point

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Anonymous #2 6d

And my point is, there are people on the right who call me slurs without waiting. Am I making sense? As a disabled queer person, I don’t see how I can be anything but left when there’s prominent people on the right that legitimately would want me in a camp.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 6d

No, I completely understand. What I’m getting at is that there are some people on the left who simply act abrasively. It’s not a majority, but a small (yet vocal minority). I’m on the left as well. It’s just a problem I’ve noticed that I fear has not helped us lately. Responses like “educate yourself”, “read theory”, “read <author who has written a fuck ton>”. There are some characters in this community who are guilty of exactly this

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Anonymous #2 6d

Okay, yeah, I won’t deny that. And that is something of a problem. Buts for me that’s a bit low on the priority list as of now.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 6d

No, that’s completely understandable

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