You’re also the guy who said “liberals aren’t leftists”. I don’t even agree we should be using the term liberal. On this platform it’s a slur used to condescend without a hint of curiosity. Off this platform, it’s used in various ways to the point it means, in America at least, nothing more specific than “anti-republican”.
To this day I don’t think I’ve heard from a communist or anyone else using the term liberal as a slur where I didn’t get the sense that my actual beliefs couldn’t matter less, but I was despised for whatever shit someone wanted to make up about me. The way you wrote that comment makes me think this time would be no different. So yeah I’m NOT on your side either.
I’m of the mind that if you can use a single word/label to describe your worldview, you don’t know much.
No, not really; even North American leftists do not identify as liberals. Actually, there are SEVERAL schools of communism; it’s just easier to say that I’m a commie than explaining what my exact subtype is.
Both Canada and the US have communist parties, even if they are small. The thing with minorities is that we can’t afford fence sitters; either stand for something or stand for nothing. Any person claiming to be a “centrist” or “doesn’t identify as left or right” is a person who doesn’t stand for anything.
You have to be pretty privileged to NOT take any strong political stances on anything. Apathy kills people just as much as bigotry does.
You’re also the guy who said “liberals aren’t leftists”. I don’t even agree we should be using the term liberal. On this platform it’s a slur used to condescend without a hint of curiosity. Off this platform, it’s used in various ways to the point it means, in America at least, nothing more specific than “anti-republican”.
To this day I don’t think I’ve heard from a communist or anyone else using the term liberal as a slur where I didn’t get the sense that my actual beliefs couldn’t matter less, but I was despised for whatever shit someone wanted to make up about me. The way you wrote that comment makes me think this time would be no different. So yeah I’m NOT on your side either.
I’m of the mind that if you can use a single word/label to describe your worldview, you don’t know much.
No, not really; even North American leftists do not identify as liberals. Actually, there are SEVERAL schools of communism; it’s just easier to say that I’m a commie than explaining what my exact subtype is.
Both Canada and the US have communist parties, even if they are small. The thing with minorities is that we can’t afford fence sitters; either stand for something or stand for nothing. Any person claiming to be a “centrist” or “doesn’t identify as left or right” is a person who doesn’t stand for anything.
You have to be pretty privileged to NOT take any strong political stances on anything. Apathy kills people just as much as bigotry does.