1/ I'm very anti-SJW, anti-'woke' culture, anti identity politics, BUT I don't regard fascists & the regressive left as ideological twins.
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The opposition isn't just in ideologies. It's in the kind of appeal they hv, why ppl subscribe to them, what they understand by them, etc.
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There's a reason why I have many 'woke' friends but no fascist friends. And it's not just societal opprobrium.
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But fascists are the very extremes whilst 'woke' can be much closer to liberalism & tolerance. Which ur friends must be to be OK with you.
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Yes and I'm only comparing fascists with SJWs because that's the specific comparison I've heard here & wanted to rebut. I think they are
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different in degree and kind.
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Profound ideological differences, yes. I find people I can find common ground with fall between middle of Left & a little right of centre.
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So it takes in some people with SocJus views who aren't arseholes to me abt it coz still share common aims but I think they do it wrong.
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Whereas people equally far on the other side - to the point of advocating social engineering plans - I usually can't find much with.
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I treat totalitarian ideas of islamism, far left or far right identity politics for what they are: illiberal. Keep the ball in the bowl.
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No one is arguing they aren't.
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my point is: it is not a bipolar scale of far left - far right, with virtue and endless whatabouteries as weights. It seems to be a bowl.
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That's where I totally disagree. I think there are differences of KIND between joining a fascist organisation & becoming an SJW.
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I find it hard to put weights on different types of totalitarian thought. If weighed by societal risk, islamism today outruns the far L/R.
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I'm not trying to weight them by societal risk. I'm talking about how and why they appeal to ppl & making a fundamental distinction between
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a good cause which was later hijacked or perverted & a cause which was always rotten to the core.
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I see your point. But good (but later perverted) intentions are a shaky proxy for better outcome. Perhaps Marxism proved that.
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