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What's the deal with leftcoms saying they are not leftists? (hexbear.net)

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I've visited the r/ultraleft sub and they are all really angry about it. Is this some kind of meme?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

It’s an infantile disorder tbf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

If I had to guess it's because they see the term leftist as another meaningless term like progressive, which I kinda agree with. I think refusing to be labeled a leftist is dumb but I definitely hate when people say "leftism"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I wondered the same thing as you but then I've been thinking that I can't really judge what leftcoms say as a whole based off the comments of a few redditors. So who knows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Well those few redditors make up about 50% of leftcoms in the world so