One particularly gross habit I see from liberals on Reddit or YouTube or even TikTok is when faced with a person they don't like, they will accuse them of some sort of illness, mental or otherwise.
For example:
A right-winger isn't just ignorant or bigoted, he's that way because he wasn't hugged as a child or has daddy issues. The worst one I see is liberals saying things along the line of "Ah yes, the eyes are close together, I've noticed that a lot of alt-righters have the signs of fetal alcohol syndrome." Yes, I kid you not. It's some real phrenology shit.
A boomer being short tempered isn't because of them being ignorant or misunderstanding, it's because of lead poisoning. Something I see often is the phrase "lead paint stare" which is pretty messed up. Like holy shit lead poisoning was a horrific crime against their entire generation, don't use it as a punchline to dismiss them. Like I get the desire to get mad at boomers as a whole, they grew up during the hight of capitalist wealth and a lot of them don't get what the rest of us are going through. But even at the height of capitalism they were still fucked over hard. We should know how little power Westerners had to oppose capitalist will in the 70s and 80s Your average boomer has about as much to do with the housing crash as we did the COVID mishandling. The environment they grew up in produced a lot of ignorant and shitty views for sure, but to trivalise them being literally mass poisoned? Fuck off.
Accusations of narcissistic personality disorder is another one I see get thrown around a lot to explain away greedy or selfish actions. To me this takes agency away from their actual terrible actions.
And then you have the Reddit shit of "this person is lashing out at me because they are depressed or suicidal. Haha." If they disagree with them. Which is pathetic and cowardly on so many levels.
I'm okay with bullying terrible people, particularly with bullying the bullies, but they should be bullied for things that are actually bad, not things are beyond their control or are things we should actually have sympathy for.
here's my metaphysics
Liberalism is entirely predicated on the spherical cows in a vacuum trope but instead of for engineering it's for all of society
It's always personal failings. everything runs like clockwork. if you are in poverty and post about it you will have your entire life picked over, judged, and shamed.
All of reality is just a bunch of spherical cows, all just floating in this cloud of Idea Stuff. nobody is hungry and hustle-grinding is to strive for
Political life is entirely about accepting or rejecting the right color of Idea Stuff.
everyone is a being of pure conscious reason, unaffected by any external stimulus accept the Idea Stuff