Yep - that age-old dilemma. You stay on reddit, you play by their rules. You leave reddit, you lose 95% of your outreach. You're right about that, for sure.
My point is that the people supposedly fighting the left with their own language, were in fact fully embracing identity politics ("I'm a black female superbi"), and not just pretending to for the purpose of ridiculing it. Meanwhile they were having a fit over some nebulous white supremacy scare. I wholeheartedly support gradually waking up the left, but let's not pretend these people don't mostly align with the opinions of a typical redditor.
fully embracing identity politics ("I'm a black female superbi")
Ah, I see. Good point. Another user also pointed out:
They had a pinned post about raising money for rape survivors. Female only, ofc. The comments were eating it up, praising how "woke" they were with zero self reflection they were just doing the same exclusionary patterns as the ctrl-left re: men.
I don't recall seeing that, maybe I missed it or it was put up after I last browsed it, but tons of red flags all over the place.
Would have been nice if it just stuck to the satire.
My point is that the people supposedly fighting the left with their own language, were in fact fully embracing identity politics ("I'm a black female superbi"),
That's actually a great way to combat leftist identity politics.
remind me how much that accomplished, again? worse, I bet if you do a follow-up check right now, you'll find a large percent of the people who were part of Not Your Shield are now full-on leftists.
Yep - that age-old dilemma. You stay on reddit, you play by their rules. You leave reddit, you lose 95% of your outreach. You're right about that, for sure.
My point is that the people supposedly fighting the left with their own language, were in fact fully embracing identity politics ("I'm a black female superbi"), and not just pretending to for the purpose of ridiculing it. Meanwhile they were having a fit over some nebulous white supremacy scare. I wholeheartedly support gradually waking up the left, but let's not pretend these people don't mostly align with the opinions of a typical redditor.
Ah, I see. Good point. Another user also pointed out:
I don't recall seeing that, maybe I missed it or it was put up after I last browsed it, but tons of red flags all over the place.
Would have been nice if it just stuck to the satire.
That's actually a great way to combat leftist identity politics.
not when the person doing it
if you look like a leftist, walk like a leftist, quack like a leftist and dilate like a leftist, you're not winning.
you can't beat the left at their own game. you don't have nearly enough resources, and most people don't even possess the necessary skillset.
It's not reaching out, it's using their own weapons against them. Like we did with NYS.
remind me how much that accomplished, again? worse, I bet if you do a follow-up check right now, you'll find a large percent of the people who were part of Not Your Shield are now full-on leftists.