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Gunning for the title of most obnoxious online left-wing figure (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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90% of her twitter is complaining about tankies and the uyghurs and the authoritarianism

someone in the comments says "im cuban and castro was not a real communist"

retweeted something about how can china eradicate poverty when people in hong kong live in tiny homes

I dunno, if the person with the most similar political development on Youtube was freaking Shoe0nhead, that would probably make me want to rethink my beliefs.

Like, there's non-tankie leftists online like hbomb, philosophytube, big joel, the chapos, contrapoints, hasanabi, but they talk about actual fucking left-wing ideals, the injustices in the present day and what could be done to fix them. They don't turn their entire online presence into "im one of the good lefties, not like these evil tankies, im one of the good and reasonable ones"

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[–] 14 points 3 years ago*

The N-word was reclaimed by black people to be used with those connotations by taking the original word and its meanings and subverting them into something either positive or neutral. The exact same thing happened with the word queer.

It's a very conscious act to reclaim terms like that.

I'm not saying that the R-slur is beyond reclamation, far from it, but it's not going to be reclaimed by people who aren't the object of the term and it's not going to be reclaimed by using the word in exactly the same way that it has historically been used.

Honestly Keffals' proclaiming her autistic status is just a veneer of progressivism to make her audience feel comfortable with her use of slurs.

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