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Some far-left groups have encouraged peaceful protests to turn violent, experts say
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Yeah but we're not at a train station. Particularly, we are communicating through text, where you can skim the entire body of the text. Maybe the upcoming text justifies why the author sees me as a racist piece of shit. Maybe I have a blind spot! Or, maybe the author is just a jackass. But now I want to find out.
But like also I think you're missing the forest for the trees? The point was not to say "you're a liberal and you should feel bad about it", it was to critique the point you started with. Namely, the "forest" is that the far right is not morally or materially equivalent to the far right, and to claim otherwise ignores history and the current reality. And I only used the "fellow liberal" framing because liberalism is the default ideology in the Western world, and because it is usually liberals who make points like this. Strike out any usages of the word "liberal" if you really can't look past this point.
I mean we're on Lemmy.world so I don't know about that 😆. Lot of liberals around here.
I assume you've made a typo and meant to say "the far left morally or materially equivalent to the far right"?
Well first of all, I appreciate this discussion. Second, maybe...?
I for sure can see the pendulum swing the other way. You've got a nazi regime now, we bring out the far left, defeat the nazis, the pendulumswings to the other side, but it swings to far and we suddenly find ourselves in a Stalinistic hellscape.
You can call me a liberal for that. I can see why you'd say that, but I disagree since that's not where we're at. In reality the left are the freedom fighters now. They're the good guys. I'm not a realist though, I'm a dreamer. I failed to communicate that in my original post and that is where I fucked up
And thirdly... yeah I think lemmy.world people know you're trying to insult them when you call them a liberal. I haven't yet met a lemmy.world person who calls themselves a liberal. It's like call a Mexican a "bean eater". No Mexican calls themselves that. It's only other people who call them that.