maybe-later-honey Yes, he suppports a genocide, but you must still vote for him because he has proven he cares about democracy and civic rights. funny-clown-hammer

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    8 months ago

    Is it inaccurate to say that these types of people are just the “”“left”“” wing version of stupidpol/ class reductionism:

    Class reductionists (assuming they are not just plants) say we need to be lenient on the working class bigotry to not alienate them and that women, lgbtq and minorities are just a ‘distraction’ for the working class. What they ignore is that ‘distraction’ does not mean ignorable. Even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about minorities you still have to get your own neo-nazi base to stop using minorities as punching bags, if only for them to not be distracted. The result is that their new nazi base pulls them right, class reductionists fail to make any good progress and minorities get driven away and back to liberal idealogies due to those being ‘safer’ to them in the short term, a behaviour that capitalists are happy to exploit.

    Liberals insists that socialists/ communists etc. should join democrats and anticommunists in order to make ‘progress’ or push democrats left later on. However they condemn all attempts at trying to get democrats to something decent. What is actually happening is that democrats are pushing them right (as shown by them victim-blaming disappointed arabs and accusing anti-genocide trans folk of lying about their queerness) and their more mask-off reactionary and condescending attitude pushes people away from them.

    Tldr liberals and class reductionists claim to push the reactionaries they coddle left but don’t actually do it and as such said reactionaries push them even further right.