When I was a preteen on /pol/ there was a serious fetish for showing affection to your fellow posters, calling each other ‘brother’ and other cheesy shit. I thought when I was a stupid little fuck that these people really cared for me and wanted to know what I had to say, then I became a leftist and I never felt that again. I’ve never been part of any leftist community or project where I felt like people gave enough of a shit about me to forgive even a minor transgression. I feel similarly cold about these people who I am around. Its like in a heist movie where all the characters are brought together for a common goal and once they accomplish it they promise to never speak again. Anyone else feel this?
Everyone will have slips here and there the problem isn’t that people are so worried about getting called out that they won’t talk imo the problem is that the only thing compelling people to talk or not to talk is the possibility of a slip up because there’s no banter or interesting conversation to risk it for
This is why I’ve always avoided scenes, and people for the most part. A dry and deeply ironic sense of humour combined with not being super open about my sexuality left me feeling isolated. Only really had one good friend and felt like a pretender elsewhere because I feared being ejected from any group I became a part of as I’d seen it happen from the sidelines too many times.
seems like it could be a combination of paranoia and a lack of leaders to coalesce around
The goal of liberals is to restrict the sphere of acceptability to only that which suits the liberal’s own personal and class agenda. Liberals know nothing of solidarity; even among the social groups they claim to defend, the liberal won’t tolerate dissent from their own self-interested prescriptions. This is how you get things like that white lady on TV telling Nina Turner that she “has no authority” to talk about MLK, who apparently liked white moderates, actually.
The truth is this: nobody’s perfect. There is necessarily space for reconciliation and forgiveness within leftism- not for imperialism and reaction, but for true, honest misunderstanding. The important thing is to try your hardest, and when you make a mistake, to own it and use it as an opportunity for self-improvement. If you stick by that, you’re good in our books.
Nah, I feel pretty safe here and you should too comrade. This is the first community I ever felt safe enough to post in instead of just lurking. You’re all amazing and I love you.
