I too wondered why this topic became a "political" football or why leftists would care. What you describe matches what I've seen from the more leftist literal-antifa types. Those who work in media know exactly what they're doing and think it's fine being deceptive to further their cause. I still can't quite grasp their logic and have to conclude it's an evil mentality. It's unclear how their actions help them achieve their goals even if you try to assume their point of view, unless there's a subtextual goal of chaos leading to a new world order.
More normie/centrist liberals just don't know the facts. For example they think he was a white supremacist shooting at black people. (not that it would matter, but their programming tells them that that's worse) They are shocked when they learn the truth.
I believe the central theme to all of this liberal madness is idolizing failure.
The problem with modern technosociety is that every day you see people who are the top 0.1% in their field. Any field. Oh you think you're pretty good at knitting? Well look at this youtube channel where they knit a 10' working suspension bridge for their 100 lb dog out of yarn.
These people believe they are failures because they value being skilled rather than family or religion or being moral, and they'll never be anywhere near the best so they're identifying with failure. That guy who drank too much, passed out in the drive-through, attacked the cop, took his weapon and pointed it at him... that could be me!
Raised as center-left, I was in the very top of my field winning competitions and such so I never felt like or identified with failure, but I'm sure this is what's going on. For example, my 130 IQ far-left brother who never mastered a skill even though he absolutely could have sends out memes like 'if you can't recognize the T-Cell in this picture just trust the science' because he believes he's a failure and can't read science and decide for himself. Why would I have to recognize a T-Cell to understand what role it plays? It's fucking dumb.
This is why I never believed that the left's real objection was to 'mean tweets'. I think what really triggered them was "we're going to win again" because they don't believe that includes them.
I too wondered why this topic became a "political" football or why leftists would care. What you describe matches what I've seen from the more leftist literal-antifa types. Those who work in media know exactly what they're doing and think it's fine being deceptive to further their cause. I still can't quite grasp their logic and have to conclude it's an evil mentality. It's unclear how their actions help them achieve their goals even if you try to assume their point of view, unless there's a subtextual goal of chaos leading to a new world order.
More normie/centrist liberals just don't know the facts. For example they think he was a white supremacist shooting at black people. (not that it would matter, but their programming tells them that that's worse) They are shocked when they learn the truth.
I believe the central theme to all of this liberal madness is idolizing failure.
The problem with modern technosociety is that every day you see people who are the top 0.1% in their field. Any field. Oh you think you're pretty good at knitting? Well look at this youtube channel where they knit a 10' working suspension bridge for their 100 lb dog out of yarn.
These people believe they are failures because they value being skilled rather than family or religion or being moral, and they'll never be anywhere near the best so they're identifying with failure. That guy who drank too much, passed out in the drive-through, attacked the cop, took his weapon and pointed it at him... that could be me!
Raised as center-left, I was in the very top of my field winning competitions and such so I never felt like or identified with failure, but I'm sure this is what's going on. For example, my 130 IQ far-left brother who never mastered a skill even though he absolutely could have sends out memes like 'if you can't recognize the T-Cell in this picture just trust the science' because he believes he's a failure and can't read science and decide for himself. Why would I have to recognize a T-Cell to understand what role it plays? It's fucking dumb.
This is why I never believed that the left's real objection was to 'mean tweets'. I think what really triggered them was "we're going to win again" because they don't believe that includes them.