Anonymous #1 4w

Genuinely has got to be so miserable to be these people at this point, you can’t let yourself enjoy anything anymore without having a fucking coronary over “wokeness”

1

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

like if someone were to personally ask them how they felt about it and they responded negatively that’s one thing, but to take the initiative and blow their lid unprompted is so funny

7

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

I genuinely do not believe in the Snowflake Party Switch, I think everyone just started pointing cameras at everyone’s one friend that’s too woke and was like “see guys this is how EVERY SINGLE LIBERAL/LEFTIST ACTS”

6

Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

I get what you’re saying but I can’t really agree, 2017-2020 was pretty wild for that kind of stuff

6

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

like I’ll admit that the Buzzfeed Lib era of like 2014-17 was an atrocious era for the optics of being on the left, and those libs were saying some crazy shit, but that’s what happens when you try to be progressive on everything BUT the economy, you eventually just get on some niche shit that most people think sounds kinda crazy

7

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

And these people expect you to take their little temper tantrums seriously and actually get mad at this stuff with them, like any of it is a legit issue worth giving attention. Like, no dude, I’m not gonna freak out over gay dudes cheering in football, we’ve got bigger fish like homelessness and addiction rates to fry

6

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

like I will never forgive Buzzfeed for associating the word feminism with absolute non-issues like “manspreading” and shit, but that’s exactly what happens when you try to appear radical without actually challenging the boot of capitalism

7

Anonymous big_al_the_riddler 4w

based

2

Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

yeah, I bet the CIA branch dedicated to crushing leftism looved that shit

5

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

Like, the “snowflake era” that I saw wasn’t so much LEFTISTS as it was liberals trying to do identity politics without real material and systematic issues being addressed, especially the way a lot of that “progressivism” was always directed at people’s individual actions rather than actual systems of oppression

3

Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

for sure, although until pretty recently those terms were interchangeable in the minds of the vast majority of americans the “individuals actions rather than systems” is a good point that I surprisingly haven’t heard, some of the stuff related to language is a great example

2

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

Like, my old college roommate who I lived with for four years was raised real religious and conservative, and when I explained the concept of privilege to him I wasn’t like “YOU have white privilege YOU need to acknowledge immediately” as the LEAD of the conversation, I talked about how everywhere we see clean water crises go unresolved in America is a predominantly-Black area and said “either the pipes are racist, or the politicians are” and he got that shit. Messaging is absolutely critical.

3

Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

good shit, and yeah I’ve come to the conclusion that the over the top stuff is usually either self-serving or extreme oversocialization/desire for approval from likeminded people

2

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

Yeah, every time I meet conservative people where they are and explain things in terms they know and understand, and avoid the buzzwords that they have a trained dismissal response to, they’ve understood what I was saying to them. And I get if some people don’t have the patience for it, but those people also cannot be our primary messengers.

4

Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

I have explained straight up Marxism to conservatives without actually using the word socialism or Marxism, and mfs ate that shit up

3

Anonymous cheese_of_the_world_unite 4w

a big ingredient of that is not immediately coming at them with the implication that 100% of what they believe is wrong, which is what a lot of the language we’re talking about conveys if someone things 95% of your views are misguided they’re open to having a conversation, if they think 100% of your views are misguided they’re calling you stupid, evil, or some combination of the two

3

Anonymous basedpaperbasket 4w

thinks*

3

Anonymous yellow_socks67 4w

The Minnesota Vikings hired some male cheerleaders and the right wing is not having it

3