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The wokes are ruining my Lemmy! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not dismissing all of leftism, I'm just referring to so-called "tankies": e.g. people from Hexbear who themselves absolutely do not engage with political ideas "in good faith".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

themselves absolutely do not engage with political ideas “in good faith”.

It's not like you engaged with their political ideas in good faith though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think I have in the past. Then I had people from Hexbear just being total cunts in their replies. They were very intolerant of different views, rather than engaging with those views in good faith.

Maybe I shouldn't generalise across Lemmy.ml and Hexbear though - maybe some people on those instances are decent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Have you considered that they may also have a past experience of people being total cunts as well? Why should they engage with your views in good faith if you don't engage with theirs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I had a conversation with someone, I think they were from Hexbear, and I was trying to be polite while they were just being insulting for no reason.

Maybe I should just conclude that the particular person I was talking to was rude, and hopefully other people from leftist instances are not as rude.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

You're right about that, I just think the idea of horseshoe theory only works in practice if hypocrisy is a valid political idea.