What a helpful and fair comment that is absolutely not dripping with smug self righteousness. So refreshing!
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orioler25@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
American liberals would sooner say that the nation is impure than that nationalism is pathological. Many of them literally identify with the state as part of or representative of themselves. Guilt and shame are American rationalisation staples, “I feel bad, but I’m not going to stop.”
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
orioler25@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What’s “righteous” about this?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You pretend to be any better than the millions of random strangers you don’t know or understand but criticize anyway.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
So for anyone keeping score at home:
This is exactly what OP is talking about. Instead of answering the question with anything even remotely resembling a nuanced take- we have instead, decided to make an uneducated blanket assessment of an entire group of people based on zero evidence and a lack of qualifications to make such an accusation.
For example, I am an American liberal. And everthing they said doesn’t even come close to describing my stance on the issues of nationalism or how I feel about my take on personal political representation.
But one should never let this get in the way of a good ol’ blanket statement! Because nothing says “no need to take anything I say seriously” any louder than this.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Exactly. Well said.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Get this, they responded to me saying that checked my profile- and apparently saw that I somehow equate leftists with liberalism and because of this, I don’t know shit, so they blocked me.
I don’t think I’ve ever put the two in the same bucket.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I saw that. A lot of people out there think they are really smart and also that we care that they think that.
orioler25@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Jesus how dramatic. Please explain liberalism for me so that I know what I’ve gotten wrong here.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
LMAO.
They checked my profile, found that I’ve never once said liberalism is leftist, and created a reason to back out of the argument.
You can’t make this shit up.
And they blocked me? Well, some gifts just wrap themselves, don’t they?