^^^ Whoa, it’s like a microcosm of American political battles happening above
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Woke Marxist-Intersectional Politics Make You Miserable
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Tambourine
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I suppose if I had to constantly fight off waves of fictional attacks by imaginary Marxists, I'd feel pretty miserable too.
exchemist
Veteran Member
I think the key to this is the term "Marxist-intersectional", in the thread title. I had to look the latter word up. It seems to have a specialised meaning, in the context of leftwing politics, viz. an obscure, deeply right-on and ghastly-sounding form of extreme identity/grievance politics: Intersectionality - Wikipedia
On that very narrow basis I sympathise with the sentiments expressed. However it seems to me to have little to do with leftwing politics in general, so I do not take the OP to be a broad-based attack on left wing ideas or people.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
No, he has a habit of taking the more extreme, fringe examples and then paints the entirety of the left with one broad brush stroke.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
I could just as easily cherry pick some right-wing kooks, present them to you, and then ask you to explain yourself.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Sure. Be my guest and cherry pick away. It's a debate thread.
exchemist
Veteran Member
What would be the value in that, though? The point being made is that cherry-picking kooks proves nothing and is a waste of everyone's time.
exchemist
Veteran Member
Ah, I see. So this would, in that case, be hunting about for obscure and extreme Aunt Sallys to attack, I suppose, in the hope of suckering some respondents into defending it, without realising what it is they are defending.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Well at least it would be some recompense in saying that she's being acknowledged as a kook.
exchemist
Veteran Member
I don't know the ins and outs of these people, but if she's had anything to do with getting Deepak Chopra
involved, then kookdom certainly would seem to beckon.
Tambourine
Well-Known Member
So an activist explaining herself and her work is an example of... let me check..."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"?
She is not "flaming" or attacking anybody in the video. She is not being racist.
Is this a mix up? Did you mean to post an entirely different video about an entirely different person who was actually "flaming" or attacking people in a racist manner?
Which of the things she said in the video do you find 'kooky'?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
You didn't watch it, or you're just pretending to be stupidly ignorant to the fact that she's a self-admitted Marxist.
Tambourine
Well-Known Member
Do you read it as a racist attack when somebody tells you they're a Marxist?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
No. I read it as a Marxist pretending it's only a racist issue.
Tambourine
Well-Known Member
You don't think a Marxist can be opposed to racism? Why not?
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Because the race issue isn't what bothers me. Being a promoter of Marxism does.
Tambourine
Well-Known Member
Have you supported BLM before you heard that one of the organizers was a Marxist?
syo
Well-Known Member
Years ago, I thought Marx and Left in general were about christian ideas of compassion and love.
BUT I found out the capitalism, socialism, communism and marxism are all the same and they have nothing to do with compassion and love.
I am never voting again.
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
If a debate is to be taken seriously, you want to avoid fallacies. Otherwise it's dishonest and proves nothing. The thread has no valid point anyways so what you're doing is inviting me to poop upon a pile of poop. I'll pass.