CiG
The Veils of Negative Existence
I feel like I see most of your posts in this and related threads, and they're primarily directed against leftist rhetoric. You seem to dedicate more time to calling out leftists than the alt-right. That might be because you think that most media criticisms of the alt-right are misguided, but then that's not a neutral position; it's a political one. I believe you when you say you despise the alt-right as much as the antifa-left, but statistically you fall to a particular side.
Well right up until the Dodge Challenger of peace attack, it was overwhelmingly the far-left doing the most stupid shit. Before that rally, the alt-right were primarily a kind of intellectual Internet movement and to add to that, they (and Trump supporters more broadly) were often the victims of leftist violence.
This is like when you prefer to criticize Islam in the era of Islamic terrorism and then everybody just assumes you're a Christian, a Christian apologist or that you support Christianity.
Prefacing every opinion or criticism by saying all the other things you also oppose is obviously impractical and unreasonable.
Finally, Marxism is still a vastly misunderstood philosophy, largely because of social media. So every time I admit some fondness for Marxism, I lose argument points. Because addressing Marx's work seriously ~ stupidity.
It's as misunderstood as any other political ideology or theory and in some cases it is better understood than others. In fact, I think capitalism is more misunderstood given how mainstream it is and how linked to everyday life it is.
I feel that my posts are in measured response to anti-left content that I see on the board. Yes, I'm a leftist, that is true; but I have explicitly said that I don't condone antifa violence. My "defenses" of them, if they can be called that, are responses to the kinds of arguments I see levied on this forum.
But now we're meta-critically commenting on our own posts, which is a dangerous practice.![]()
I have no idea why anybody would need to defend body-shaming or accusations of thuggery against Antifa. Especially when you can just watch the hours and hours of footage of Antifa on Youtube and see that they're hardly a force of physical prowess (they look like a bunch of Portland crust punk hipsters) and that they do indeed engage in thuggery. They attack women ffs.