You take a lot of positions that are identical to the “reasonable conservative” who turns out to be either sea-lioning troll ir a closet fascist. Looking through your posts I don’t think that’s the case with you but if you were familiar with these spaces you might understand the alarms you are setting off.
Not all of Lemmy is hostile but there is a portion whose philosophical education seems to be dependent on youtube/forums and is lacking a lot of the core of political philosophy one gets through academia.
Yeah I get it. Looks like a duck. Quacks like a duck n all that. I am a llama I swear.
I would say only a handful have here been outright hostile towards me. The majority just downvote and leave. Which is fine. I don’t care about the fake Internet points but it definitely doesn’t help my impression that many people around here are incredibly quick to judge and they make a lot of assumptions about me. Or they hear one opinion that goes against theirs and they automatically assume I am the polar opposite to them on every issue. Which just often isn’t the case at all I have a lot of left leaning positions, but it’s seems as every day goes by the left are less and less excepting of anyone that doesn’t agree with them across the board on everything. It’s legitimately concerning to see how little it takes for some of them to turn on each other. Like one position that’s a few degrees off and you are completely dead to them. The enemy.
For example there is this chick on my Facebook that I pretty much only pay attention to because she is so far left it’s entertaining to watch her spiral post about the most insane things, but I saw her turn on one of her best friends because her best friend wouldn’t date a trans guy. They literally agreed on every other political front as far as I could tell, but because her friend said she wouldn’t date a trans person it was over almost immediately. Something like 13 years of friendship gone over one political difference in one afternoon. I watched her leave this huge ranting comment and then unfriend and block her friend. She’s 35. Just insane.
There are a LOT of trolls who have come here this week so it’s a matter of bad timing and overall the community here is less polite.
Leftists biggest enemies are other leftists. That’s because their views are fairly different IRL whereas Western right wingers all more or less fall into support for some version of modern fascism so there’s greater agreement. Leftists cannot agree how free people should be whereas the modern rightwing agrees that people should have fewer rights in general. That creates purity tests that make actual progress very difficult. The Marxists would tell you this is intentional and the results of monied interests holding down the working class and IMO that sounds right.
That lady sounds like she has issues. Hopefully she gets help.
You take a lot of positions that are identical to the “reasonable conservative” who turns out to be either sea-lioning troll ir a closet fascist. Looking through your posts I don’t think that’s the case with you but if you were familiar with these spaces you might understand the alarms you are setting off.
Not all of Lemmy is hostile but there is a portion whose philosophical education seems to be dependent on youtube/forums and is lacking a lot of the core of political philosophy one gets through academia.
Yeah I get it. Looks like a duck. Quacks like a duck n all that. I am a llama I swear.
I would say only a handful have here been outright hostile towards me. The majority just downvote and leave. Which is fine. I don’t care about the fake Internet points but it definitely doesn’t help my impression that many people around here are incredibly quick to judge and they make a lot of assumptions about me. Or they hear one opinion that goes against theirs and they automatically assume I am the polar opposite to them on every issue. Which just often isn’t the case at all I have a lot of left leaning positions, but it’s seems as every day goes by the left are less and less excepting of anyone that doesn’t agree with them across the board on everything. It’s legitimately concerning to see how little it takes for some of them to turn on each other. Like one position that’s a few degrees off and you are completely dead to them. The enemy.
For example there is this chick on my Facebook that I pretty much only pay attention to because she is so far left it’s entertaining to watch her spiral post about the most insane things, but I saw her turn on one of her best friends because her best friend wouldn’t date a trans guy. They literally agreed on every other political front as far as I could tell, but because her friend said she wouldn’t date a trans person it was over almost immediately. Something like 13 years of friendship gone over one political difference in one afternoon. I watched her leave this huge ranting comment and then unfriend and block her friend. She’s 35. Just insane.
There are a LOT of trolls who have come here this week so it’s a matter of bad timing and overall the community here is less polite.
Leftists biggest enemies are other leftists. That’s because their views are fairly different IRL whereas Western right wingers all more or less fall into support for some version of modern fascism so there’s greater agreement. Leftists cannot agree how free people should be whereas the modern rightwing agrees that people should have fewer rights in general. That creates purity tests that make actual progress very difficult. The Marxists would tell you this is intentional and the results of monied interests holding down the working class and IMO that sounds right.
That lady sounds like she has issues. Hopefully she gets help.