• autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    They said elsewhere that they’re autistic. The need to be exact and truthful when people generalize something like a community is something i identify with. Its why I dont really love the stormfront joke myself, just go along with it for community peace. This person to me is clearly well intentioned and is an example of the dunk impulse going too far because I think they’re trying to do right.

    ETA: Actually I got them mixed up with another user they never said they were autistic. But I still think they are well intentioned.

          • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            1 year ago

            We aren’t going to tolerate intolerance in this instance. I personally don’t have a problem with communists. But I do have a problem with authoritarian communists. If you think me making this distinction is acting in bad faith, then you might run into more issues than just me here.

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              1 year ago

              You might run into more issues than just this thread by casually tossing out the “authoritarian” label like you did on Reddit where the groups in question couldn’t defend themselves

                • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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                  1 year ago

                  Defend what? I don’t think the parallel you want to draw works quite as well as you think. My point is that Redditors can cast stones in their ignorance at people who they would struggle to string a whole sentence together to describe without buzzwords because they know jack shit about what those people actually think. Western communists are typically quite familiar with the ideology of liberals.

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                    1 year ago

                    Defend what?

                    ourselves

                    they know jack shit about what those people actually think

                    I’m interested to learn more about what those people actually think.

                    Western communists are typically quite familiar with the ideology of liberals.

                    I’m not sure how they can be if they think everyone to the right of them is a liberal.