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I'm at a point where liberals are more annoying than conservatives. (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by Angel@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Performatively pretending to support movements against oppression is just no longer, in any way, less frustrating than the conservative tendency to just outright support oppression, and that's all liberals do.

Obviously, conservatives are evil and huge pieces of shit, but I'm at a point in my online presence where I just expect the most brainlet shit from them.

Libs, on the other hand, are just in an indefinite cycle of spouting bad takes that enable oppression, but due to ignorance, they think they're actively helping fight against it.

As a trans person of color, bigotry from conservatives is phasing me much less nowadays, but racism and transphobia from libs now seems significantly more abhorrent.

Don't expect me to explain the psychology behind it. This is just how it be like sometimes.

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[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

To reiterate @THIRD_WORLDIST@hexbear.net's point, both of those cultural tendencies are liberal, they are just liberalism with different pretensions. One is liberalism with a pretention towards 'fairness and realism' (conservative) the other is a pretension towards 'equality and justice' (liberal), neither of them delivers on their point because like liberalism is just about preserving aristocratic rights for businesses and business owners, it's not actually about individual rights, freedoms or justice.

[-] duderium@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mostly agree. I’ve heard conservatives mention fairness, but fairness to them means doing what you’re told based on the socially constructed capitalist hierarchy (with cis white men on top and everyone else taking orders from them obviously). If you openly question this, you mark yourself out as an enemy of “natural” law.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Correct, both strains of liberals believe in a meritocracy. They just have different qualities as to what is meritorious, and why it is meritorious, and ultimately it falls flat because actual emancipation is not merit-based.