> the well-pointed satire actually offended some people who have made their career doing what the satire criticizes.
This person is referring to the #gamergate controversy from like 6-7 years ago, I understand that much.
But how does a progressive, left-leaning person go from that to being offended by a satire about capitalism? I have no clue. It's like becoming a caricature of yourself.
it literally made me enraged to see someone twist feminist ideas to make an asinine point defending the status quo. I'm not sure what the answer to your question is, but I think it's something like - the person may only be left-leaning insofar as it affects their own rights, being a person from marginalized groups, but is not left-leaning to the point of opposing other forms of exploitation even when they are part of their own paycheck
Maybe they shouldn’t. This is such an annoying comment. GP wasn’t uncalm. By saying such a flippant statement, it seems to me that you’re denegrating GP and saying that his ideas aren’t worth talking about.
As if being calm is some ideal to always maintain anyway.
Slighlty OT for this forum, but the "left" isn't monolithic either. Especially on twitter, there's a lot of left-leaning people who despise the "dirtbag left" that user refers to.
You write “their” as if one specific ideology was a problem. Watch “conservatives” tie themselves into knots to support a most certainly un-conservative demagogue. It’s just as bad as “leftists” who have forgotten about freedom. Radicalisation is a problem, and it is generalised.
This person is referring to the #gamergate controversy from like 6-7 years ago, I understand that much.
But how does a progressive, left-leaning person go from that to being offended by a satire about capitalism? I have no clue. It's like becoming a caricature of yourself.