I can't take the abuse any more, and frankly there's no point in continuing to offer myself up as a punching bag to tens of thousands of misogynists when most other leftists don't have the courage or strength to name what is going on and address it.— Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyderPHL) July 30, 2020
Even her going after brace for that old picture is disconnected from reality. Yeah it's gross, but he was young and on drugs. Everyone makes mistakes and he's a better person today. It's like she's constructed these weird images of people exclusively through Twitter and indirect sources like old news articles and never listened to them actually speak. Then she projects that image onto us. It is frustrating.
I’m starting to think that the left has two nearly irreconcilable worldviews, and that this rift is causing incalculable upheaval in leftist communities. I will call these two views Contagion and Conversion.
I am a Conversion Leftist. I believe that the future of humanity depends on humanity doing better. I want a broad left movement that includes reformed criminals, Nazis, racists, former white supremacists etc. To me, a reformed Nazi is a triumph, because that means that Nazi won’t be able to hurt people in the way they used to. To me, a formerly homophobic pastor realizing they are wrong is a triumph, because it means the vulnerable gay kids in his church will be less abused.
Because I’m a Conversion Leftist, I celebrate any occasion when someone changes their mind in favor of leftism, regardless of how toxic their former beliefs.
And then there is the Contagion left. The Contagion Left seems to see fascism, nationalism and Nazism as a spiritual quality which can infect a person with secret inner evil. Come into close contact with a fascist, or follow someone undesirable on twitter, and you are now a carrier of untraceable but undeniable evil.
I think Gwen follows the latter. If you have had any contact with the far right, you are infected and need to be shunned and removed.
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Even her going after brace for that old picture is disconnected from reality. Yeah it's gross, but he was young and on drugs. Everyone makes mistakes and he's a better person today. It's like she's constructed these weird images of people exclusively through Twitter and indirect sources like old news articles and never listened to them actually speak. Then she projects that image onto us. It is frustrating.
There was a good blog post that someone wrote about this mindset:
https://stephenbradfordlong.com/2020/05/21/why-i-havent-left-the-satanic-temple/
I think Gwen follows the latter. If you have had any contact with the far right, you are infected and need to be shunned and removed.
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Feel free to post it - to be honest it was shared with my by a friend of mine, so it's just me having really good memory to recall it
Nazis are bad. Being mean to me, Gwen Snyder, is also bad. Therefore, anyone and everyone who is mean to me must be a Nazi.
Oh, what's that? You say I can't just run around calling people Nazis for no reason? You sound like a Nazi.