I for example am not in support of social media witch hunts when someone is accused of being racist/sexist/classist and and so on. I firmly believe that we should be instituting bodies that have the power to investigate issues like this and take appropriate actions, with more freedom than the typical judicial process. This however does not mean that I don't support gender equality, climate action or social welfare measures.

Another example would be affirmative action. I find it horrible that the supreme court gutted it the way it did but I also find it quite unpleasant that the elected representatives, in all this time, did not try to replace it with grassroot level measure such as food security, free tuition, books etc. higher school and teacher density in lower income or low performing areas. I feel that affirmative action was a stop gap measure, but it ended up being the prop used by politicians to not act on more fundamental issues.

Honestly, I would rather forgo the label altogether. In my experience label makes people into tribes and tribes aren't really conducive to nuanced dialogue or individual opinions, rather, they're good at collective action.

[–] Zormat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I also find it quite unpleasant that the elected representatives, in all this time, did not try to replace it with grassroot level measure such as food security, free tuition, books etc. higher school and teacher density in lower income or low performing areas.

So you support leftist ambitions, but because of some nonsense on Twitter you feel obligated to give credence to actual, flag-waving, "we're coming to take your kids and throw you in prison," nazis?

Holy shit you're the guy from the meme

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 8 points 1 year ago

All of the stances taken by one side need not resonate with you.

I'm going to take the absolute worst possible view of the minority of the people I disagree with and paint the entirety of them as that thing

🤡

[–] Parsnip8904 4 points 1 year ago

Holy shit you're the guy from the meme

Yeah I totally am you know.

Despite the fact that I have never had a Twitter account.

Or despite the fact that I work in a charity teaching and facilitating teaching of the same children covered by affirmative action equivalent in my poor third world country earning bare minimum.

Or despite the fact that I've know and participated in research programs aimed at assessing the impact of such measures.

I get that because we're online, people feel certain freedom to say whatever they want but please be mindful of the fact that a real person is at the other end in the future.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That's not what they said at all. WTF is wrong with people?