[Sinfest] Appalachia II
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Gonna have to disagree with you on that one chief, as someone who has been MeToo'd (to get out of paying rent and hide a cheating triangle I wasn't even a part of) and was stuck with a Hardcore Feminist school counselor in Middle School, there is absolutely plenty to fear in many of their sleeves. Especially in the places and times you are most vulnerable (as in, not online).
Which is why I find all the "former Lefties" that make up our ranks so insufferable. Because most of them "come to Jesus" and act like they were victims for being brainwashed and manipulated for so long. Without an ounce of repentance for their contributions or outright damage to those of us who weren't as easily duped that them.
And as we see with IMC and basically everyone on KIA1 these days, "former Lefties" might swing the hardest but they are also the least reliable to stay the path after time. Convert Zeal only lasts so long.
I don't disagree with you, but I think we're talking about "former lefties" at two different times.
The recent converts, yes, because they still haven't challenged any of the foundational myths. This is where you get the dissident voice going "feminism went awry in the 3rd wave!" These are "the Left left me" types. They are the ones who have been emotionally conditioned to feel like they belong on the Left, and try to go back and eventually realize they can't.
The ones who actually challenge those myths are the ones I'm talking about. I forget his name now, but it was the the lawyer who's friend was raped and murdered by several Black Panther members, and realized that not only did any of his Lefty friends want to investigate it, but neither did the police. Those are the ones who tell you to just keep throwing hands.
Well of course they do. I'm assuming that since you brought it up the guy in your example was a heavy leftie. Which means he is likely very responsible for getting his friend hurt by contributing to the climate that helped make Black Panthers feel both safe doing and avoid consequences as well.
They are telling you to throw hands to assuage their own guilt at seeing the nightmare they've created, and hoping that if they get you hyped enough to destroy it it will absolve them.
Because, as I said, it never comes with a repentance. They don't swap and then try to right the wrongs they've made personally. Heck most won't even acknowledge it, and if so will just be "was a Leftie." Its just about further destruction of the "bad guys," just like a Leftie is, but now the bad guy is new.
Its no different than a Christian who spends all day ranting and raving about the evils of sin in everyone else, but refuses to go to confession himself.
For the most part yes, with the exception that he tried to hold the Black Panthers accountable and got nowhere with it, thus setting him on the path away from the Left, because he realized that all of his friends were okay with the rape and murder.
To me, and from at least this person's account, there is significant repentance because he understood that he had managed to basically let her die because he implicitly trusted people solely because of his ideology. Recognizing that, he wants to get more people to fight that ideology and keep it from happening again.
Just admitting to your sin isn't repentance. Its a solid first step, and is better than a lot of "former Lefties" get because the bar is just that fucking low, but its still just the first step. Since I don't know the exact person you are talking about I can't criticize further.
To use a different example, someone going Sober has to spend everyday focusing on it, including constant meetings with AA or similar. Part of that is making a list of everyone you hurt from top to bottom and then making those amends no matter how big or small. As well as taking inventory of their own flaws, defects and failings that lead to them being able to fall into that pit to begin with.
What most of these "former Lefties throwing hands" are doing is skipping all that and just going out demanding Alcohol be banned, skipping all the personal accountability nonsense. They are still the same person but now swinging a different way, with the same exploitable defects as a person.