Leftists believe that their side is metaphysically good and the other side is metaphysically evil. So when one of their own commits evil, then that person immediately becomes a member of the other side simply by virtue of having committed evil.
For leftists, morality is relative. They believe evil is socially defined, and they define it as anything that inhibits or prevents them from obtaining and wielding power. So when a leftist commits an objectively evil act, leftists will either 1) claim the act isn’t evil or 2) claim the actor isn’t a leftist. Frequently, 2 will follow 1 when the evil act is undeniably evil.
Well said, and so important to grasp for anyone who wants to argue with leftists. There’s literally no point in arguing with them, unless you’re somewhere with an audience and are crafting your arguments for the audience’s sake rather than specifically trying to beat the leftist, or are just getting them to be hypocrites in exactly the way you’ve described, again for the audience’s sake. No one will beat the leftists on the merits because they don’t believe in merit, it’s only down to who did/said it. If that person is politically “good,” then everything up to a fucking genocide would be defended by the leftists since they also consider themselves politically “good.”
Leftists believe that their side is metaphysically good and the other side is metaphysically evil. So when one of their own commits evil, then that person immediately becomes a member of the other side simply by virtue of having committed evil.
For leftists, morality is relative. They believe evil is socially defined, and they define it as anything that inhibits or prevents them from obtaining and wielding power. So when a leftist commits an objectively evil act, leftists will either 1) claim the act isn’t evil or 2) claim the actor isn’t a leftist. Frequently, 2 will follow 1 when the evil act is undeniably evil.
Well said, and so important to grasp for anyone who wants to argue with leftists. There’s literally no point in arguing with them, unless you’re somewhere with an audience and are crafting your arguments for the audience’s sake rather than specifically trying to beat the leftist, or are just getting them to be hypocrites in exactly the way you’ve described, again for the audience’s sake. No one will beat the leftists on the merits because they don’t believe in merit, it’s only down to who did/said it. If that person is politically “good,” then everything up to a fucking genocide would be defended by the leftists since they also consider themselves politically “good.”