Liberals are authoritarians, we all pretty much agree on that here but what's the best way to communicate this to a well meaning baby leftist?
Anything worth linking to or specific phrasings you like using? How do you go about justifying that liberals are the "real" authoritarians and not the communists?
This is painfully true for american liberals and I have no idea what to do about it. They literally get all of their opinions from this and if anything is said outside of it that doesn't match up with the enemies they've been told they should have at any given time they will outright reject actual facts. Wtf do we do about that? The meme with the memory chip being replaced in the brain is completely correct.
This is a really interesting observation that I need time to think about. I probably need to sleep on it more than once before some ideas will start popping out.
Yeah, liberals or baby leftists still feel comfortable that they can express opinions. As long as that line isn't threatened, they still feel some internal righteousness. They're can tweet what they want, post memes or whatever. They can say Xi Jinping is a funny cartoon bear. To them, that's the same thing as political praxis, so they feel no threat. They're still comfortable enough to express opinions within the designated scope of liberal spectacle, probably because they haven't yet started expressing things that run contrary to liberalism.
Like criticizing imperialism at a structure level, calling for more robust labor rights, or just outright calling for the imprisonment/death of liberal politicians. Those are the actual spicy things that get pushback, whether from social ostracizing or in some cases a knock on your door by the Department of Homeland Security. I haven't seen it happen, but I'm guessing a visit from a federal agent over a tweet would probably push a burgeoning leftist into a reality check.