I step out of Hexbear and into another instance for once and immediately get this shit lmao
I was letting off some steam about how sick and tired I am about working a shit job to make some asshole rich, and I made an off hand remark about how my employer probably belongs in a gulag. Further down the reply chain, this lemmitor asshole shows up to send me a whole tirade full of faux concern, breaking out the psychoanalysis to say I'm just an extremist full of unjustified hatred because I must be a bitter loser. Somehow they come up with this nuclear hot take comparing my anger at the capitalist class to a Christian fundamentalist hating gay people.
But the fucking cherry on the top here is sending me this comment as their very first interaction with me and proceeding to instantly block me to deny me the chance to reply at all. I've seen others use the block feature as a means of getting the last word in, but never to get both the first and last word in at the same time. And in the end, this self-unaware lib ends up calling me the overly self righteous one. Perfect.
Tbh, what gets me is that they were so fucking close to getting it. They almost came to an accurate understanding of the fact that my material conditions as a poor person getting fucked over day in and day out by my employer stealing my labor will heavily inform my politics. But of course they never quite reach that point, instead bizarrely veering off into psychologizing me, and acting like this is all just some sort of character flaw on my part.
Rule one: https://hexbear.net/comment/4738025
I don't care about litigating about Hexbear, you can hate it or whatever. What I am complaining about is the wizardbeard guy explicitly disparaging downtrodden people in favor of those who are doing well in the status quo. It's immensely social darwinist, to say nothing of the fact that even anarchists, to my understanding, care about things being counterrevolutionary.
Like, isn't the whole point of anarchism that the status quo is fucked and needs to be drastically changed? Don't you proudly self-identify as a type of radical [i.e. "extremist"]? If so, then doesn't this guy making blanket statements about extremists being scum seem to represent an issue?
But you are twisting his words. He never mentioned 'downtrodden' or 'poor' or 'disadvantaged' or anything similar anywhere in his comments. His exact wording was "[You] have nothing good going on in [your] life", which could mean in your personal life, or any number of things. But of course it was uncharitably interpreted. He used similar phrasing for religious fanatics too.
The point of anarchism isn't to replace one ideologically driven system where workers suffer with another ideological system where workers also suffer. It's to dismantle the apparatus of state and institutions that enforce and police ideology.
No one actually says this, put the Bakunin away. My point is that anarchists are their own category of extremists and you can clearly see what he thinks of you. If you still want to cape for that, go right ahead I guess.
It's wild how you guys are so excited to jump to redbashing when it has nothing to do with the subject. Keep telling me about intolerant tankies (actually don't, I don't give a shit what you think).