I step out of Hexbear and into another instance for once and immediately get this shit lmao
I was letting off some steam about how sick and tired I am about working a shit job to make some asshole rich, and I made an off hand remark about how my employer probably belongs in a gulag. Further down the reply chain, this lemmitor asshole shows up to send me a whole tirade full of faux concern, breaking out the psychoanalysis to say I'm just an extremist full of unjustified hatred because I must be a bitter loser. Somehow they come up with this nuclear hot take comparing my anger at the capitalist class to a Christian fundamentalist hating gay people.
But the fucking cherry on the top here is sending me this comment as their very first interaction with me and proceeding to instantly block me to deny me the chance to reply at all. I've seen others use the block feature as a means of getting the last word in, but never to get both the first and last word in at the same time. And in the end, this self-unaware lib ends up calling me the overly self righteous one. Perfect.
Tbh, what gets me is that they were so fucking close to getting it. They almost came to an accurate understanding of the fact that my material conditions as a poor person getting fucked over day in and day out by my employer stealing my labor will heavily inform my politics. But of course they never quite reach that point, instead bizarrely veering off into psychologizing me, and acting like this is all just some sort of character flaw on my part.
Rule one: https://hexbear.net/comment/4738025
There’s something particularly irritating about liberals and their obsession with psychoanalysis and saying “get therapy” as the ultimate insult/ form of help.
It's just so disingenuous, like all their faux concern. They wield concern like a weapon, to use against people and a shield to prevent people from calling them out.
I've noticed the same thing. Honestly, there's something really dark and insidious about this type of behavior. It's so gross whenever you're arguing with some
user and they sick reddit's suicide hotline bot on your DMs.
I know the term is overused and misused a ton online, but this shit is literally gaslighting by definition.
It's super ableist too. "You need help so therefore nothing you say has value."
They're almost right because the function of therapy in the west is to create healthy liberal subjects who are more content with the world