You've clearly never posted on Hexbear because we often have lengthy discussions specifically because you can't just downvote and move on.
You'll probably get to experience that now in fact as all the Hexbears who see this go "uh that's wrong" and tell you rather than downvote you. It's a great community building tool.
You think I would write the comment I did without having made the experience? I'm banned from that community and I'm not even sad to be excluded from such a toxic realm
Toxic is what I encountered. It wasn't just different opinions. It was what people called me and how and what they commented. I'm glad that didn't happen to you yet but don't pretend you know what happened to me.
They called me a liberal for pointing to "Homage to Catalonia", which they called liberal propaganda even though I explained that in the book Orwell called out the Stalinists for siding with the liberals, indirectly against the anarchosyndicalists and thereby helping the fascists to power.
Sure, you can have different readings of historical events, but you can also spam people with 1984 memes and hate on an author without knowing shit about him. Reminds me of the Hakim video about Orwell where he claims that he never spoke about Franco even though Homage to Catalonia exists and that's the book about his politicization and he cites it as most influential and most important. Except that Hakim didn't react to someone who literally explained all that. Tbf some of the explaining was in later removed comments so some of the commenters didn't see them.
Orwell was a well known anti communist, so yeah, pretty lib take to defend him. Seems called for to me. I bet you didn't get banned for having one lib take though
Sounds like you have the right black and white thinking for hexbear. How is criticizing Stalin for working with the libs a thing that makes you a lib? Sure, he was anti communist, or rather anti stalinist and I guess anti bolshevik, and there is a lot to criticize from a left perspective, I'm not going to defend his homophobia and antisemitism but he was not a liberal. There are more than 2 political camps. How can you totally ignore my last comment?
You've clearly never posted on Hexbear because we often have lengthy discussions specifically because you can't just downvote and move on.
You'll probably get to experience that now in fact as all the Hexbears who see this go "uh that's wrong" and tell you rather than downvote you. It's a great community building tool.
Anyway
You think I would write the comment I did without having made the experience? I'm banned from that community and I'm not even sad to be excluded from such a toxic realm
Toxic is when you post your opinion in a discussion forum, apparently.
Toxic is what I encountered. It wasn't just different opinions. It was what people called me and how and what they commented. I'm glad that didn't happen to you yet but don't pretend you know what happened to me.
What did folks call you? Why did they?
They called me a liberal for pointing to "Homage to Catalonia", which they called liberal propaganda even though I explained that in the book Orwell called out the Stalinists for siding with the liberals, indirectly against the anarchosyndicalists and thereby helping the fascists to power.
Sure, you can have different readings of historical events, but you can also spam people with 1984 memes and hate on an author without knowing shit about him. Reminds me of the Hakim video about Orwell where he claims that he never spoke about Franco even though Homage to Catalonia exists and that's the book about his politicization and he cites it as most influential and most important. Except that Hakim didn't react to someone who literally explained all that. Tbf some of the explaining was in later removed comments so some of the commenters didn't see them.
Orwell was a well known anti communist, so yeah, pretty lib take to defend him. Seems called for to me. I bet you didn't get banned for having one lib take though
Sounds like you have the right black and white thinking for hexbear. How is criticizing Stalin for working with the libs a thing that makes you a lib? Sure, he was anti communist, or rather anti stalinist and I guess anti bolshevik, and there is a lot to criticize from a left perspective, I'm not going to defend his homophobia and antisemitism but he was not a liberal. There are more than 2 political camps. How can you totally ignore my last comment?
By your own admission he was a bigoted homophobe, but he's still not a lib? What is he then?