#fake lefties

[tkrr]

So tired of the moralizing, simplistic bullshit that people have been passing off as leftism since the 1960s. Leftism should be about community. It should be thoughtful and empathetic, not preachy and reactionary. And it definitely shouldn’t be as abjectly fatalistic as it is; even back in the 60s, I don’t think the fatalism was this pervasive.

I saw someone a while back point out that a lot of “leftism” is just anticapitalist libertarianism. It certainly seems to me like a lot of young leftists think justice can be achieved by ripping up the social contract and robbing those they deem to be the bad guys blind.

[tkrr]

So this is a real thing that a real person paid to write political opinions wrote, in response to the censure of Jeremy Corbyn by the UK Labour Party. When Lopez was called out on it, he proceeded to keep doubling down on it, blowing off people telling him to listen to Jewish people about what antisemitism is. These chucklefucks, alleged progressives, are one step away from unironically using the term “rootless cosmopolitans”.

Please, please, please start fighting back against this bullshit on the left. They don’t listen to the people they claim to want to help. They’re reactionaries in progressive clothing. They sneer at “liberals”, conflating multiple definitions of the term without regard for what liberalism actually is, and ignore that part of the values of liberalism is empiricism and being able to adapt to change, rather than sticking to Gilded Age theory that’s only marginally relevant to modern society.

(Also, don’t take the Wikipedia article on liberalism as normative. I got in enough editing disputes in my Wiki days that I can recognize the charred remnants of a nasty edit war when I read them.)