Really, for me, this is my true reason for rejection of leftist ideas. But, pardon me if I pry into some of the minds here who seem all gung-ho on it.
Well, I haven't been shy that I'm an anarchist, so I would be happy to answer your questions.
How does one find any joy in calling people racists and fascists all day?
I haven't called anyone a racist or a fascist in awhile. They aren't really accusations I frequently make, because most people are not racists or fascists. I do point out when people unknowingly parrot racist rhetoric, but I try to be tactful and polite about it. It's a lot more productive to have a conversation about why particular words or actions might inadvertently support these systems, especially with dogwhistling being so commonplace these days.
How do you feel whole when you have to constantly worry about the thought police of your own side ripping you a new one after you misstep?
You know, I hear you, and this cancel culture is so similar to China's reliance on citizen censors that it's sort of scary. That's not going to get me to compromise my values, though, and I'm working on creating more anonymous and private communication platforms on the dark net to off-set these effects.
What is treating certain 'privileged' races differently mean other than straight out actual racism? (call me confused) Presuming, of course, the idea is to "right the wrongs"... Isn't favoring any still race, racist? Isn't disparaging any race, racist? (Mind you, I find no racism acceptable and do not feel that anyone is immune to racism even if they are doing it toward their own race.)
Well, after segregation you still had the Jim Crowe laws. In the newspapers, they say white looters after disasters are "finding" TVs and black scavengers carrying bread after disasters are "looting." We still have black cities and white cities, the black cities normally being low-income. The predominant culture has slowly become more accepting to other cultures that aren't Anglo-Saxon, but it's still mostly Eurocentric. White male has long been the default for any character in Hollywood, and now if you change that people accuse you of being a "woke leftist shill" and creating "forced diversity" which is actually pretty racist, although I don't think that most people who throw around these accusations realize how racist the underlying sentiment is because it's become normalized.
It was just a hundred years ago that we sent all Asian Americans into concentration camps here in America. It was less than that to end segregation. The effects of both have still lingered through the generations, because during the 20th century it became increasingly harder to climb the class ladder, essentially creating fairly rigid castes that disadvantaged everyone but is especially hard on minorities. Many of the victimless crimes we have on the books were made illegal specifically to target some ethnicity. Cannabis, for instance, was given the name "marijuana" to associate it with Mexican Americans.
There are a lot of little ways that people are supporting these systems still, mostly because I think they don't know any better because they have the privilege to not need to care. It's not been that long, a lot of these mindsets from these eras are still here in a lot of odd niches. There's a lot more I could talk about, but this is just introductory. I feel like if you were looking for an earnest answer to this question, you could easily google it and find better expositions. Or just continue pretending that there isn't an issue. I assume it won't really affect you either way, will it?
Where do you diverge from the platform, so to speak? It seems this isn't something that is allowed to be voiced. Does it even happen? (never seen it, seems like most believe exactly the same things...)
Diverge from what platform? "Leftist in-fighting" has become a buzzword, there's no predominant ideology outside of maybe liberalism which is fairly moderate. So I guess I differ from that because I'm an anarchist.
How do you weigh systematic injustice?
You look at how criminals are treated and what they're being arrested for.
Do you think it's endemic, localized, or whatever?
The world has always been unjust, but it's getting better. In some places quicker than others.
Who do you think is responsible? (Donald Trump isn't an acceptable answer to me, etc... Not because I think he's Jesus, but because he has nothing to do with it.) Why do you think it's true?
We are. We let corrupt politicians into office and put social pressures on people fighting these institutions. We look the other way when we see police brutality and wash it down with copaganda. We give into tribalistic fear towards our neighbors, many of which who share our same struggles, and focus on this petty small-picture nonsense because homophobia and transphobia are still rampant for whatever reason. Humans very easily give way to tribalism. I think it's been a fight against our nature this whole way.
It's very easy to blame a specific figure, but none of these figures would have any power if we didn't give it to them. Yet we still do time and time again. Hitler wasn't to blame for Nazi Germany. Neither were the Nazis, who were a minority. It was the moderates who let it happen without a fight and tried to pretend the concentration camps weren't that bad. It's the banality of evil. Without them, the Nazis would have never had any power to begin with. That's why social reform is so important, and why fascism has to be called out when we see it. If we become complacent again, then it comes back.
I am just as against Bolshevism, of course, which became intertwined with Soviet Russia and Communist China, because I'm an anarchist. What China is doing overseas sort of terrifies me, as well as the CPC propaganda we're getting over here as we start relying more on them. As such, I am just as critical of other leftists, but you probably don't see that very often because you're not a leftist. It's hard for me to choose in this election between a white nationalist and a Chinese shill, I hate them both.
If you get this woke world where everyone is constantly flaming each other for racism, fascism, and whatever and trying to cancel everyone out before they too get canceled out, what is the win condition? It seems terrible to me.
...less racism and fascism? Cancel culture is a toxic extreme that shouldn't exist, and too many leftists try to pretend like it isn't a problem or doesn't exist, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep pointing out when people start crossing those lines. I'm not a fan of trying people in the court of public opinion, but there's a difference between calling somebody's workplace and telling their managers about the fascist in the office and not buying from an organization where the CEO is using your money to fund anti-LGBT and white pride movements. When you tackle cancel culture, you don't want to squeeze out the latter with it.
Anyway, feel free to ignore whatever you don't feel like answering, but all of this seems to me like it's just a giant suck-fest.
I agree. It feels like no matter what you do or who you rally behind, everything is terrible and might be getting worse. The only thing I can do is try to operate off of my values of liberty, peace, and non-aggression, letting the cards fall however they may.
