It's worrying if people are being refreshed by accusations of fascism, mercenary motivations, alt-right views, Nazism rather than reasoned disagreement with ideas genuinely held. The left has been accused of having lost the ability to make arguments & we need to fix that.https://twitter.com/BaileyNagy/status/976011723412033536 …
It's not my claim! My claim is that the accusation exists and we need to address it by dealing with the shit that caused it to be made.
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Well, the shit that caused it to be made is the distressing tendency of people to over-simplify by pinning oligosyllabic labels onto large groups of people so that they can deal with them *as* groups rather than as individuals. The word "left" is one such label.
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OK. I'm not sure why you seem to think I am a person who needs telling this tho. Have I not written enough pieces defending the liberal left and talking about how to distinguish it from the SocJus left and marginalise the latter?
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Helen, I don't think you need telling this. I just love arguing, especially with people on the left, because they're so good at it.
Your remark seemed to me to be identitarian, and I called you out on it - not to beat you down, but to find out what you meant.
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