You Know, I'm Initially Inclined To Agree, Many People Will Agree (or Surface Level Seem To Agree) With

you know, I'm initially inclined to agree, many people will agree (or surface level seem to agree) with left wing ideology just out of uncritical following of a crowd, and I do think that that's a real problem. but like. hmmmm hmmmm

and there's a lot more red usernames in the empty reblogs... the thing is, I think a lot of the people in the notes are sorta reading this post and only looking at it surface level, ironically enough. you can criticize the reason for people getting into politics, I think that's fair, but a lot of the people who seem to agree to that... don't seem to be doing that themselves, I don't think. and are just seeing this as "radicalism bad" or "those silly progressives, they're just like the right".

look, I really don't think you can fundamentally compare these two things, wanting to exterminate another race, or advocating for an ethnostate, these things cannot be meaningfully compared with the very basic progressive ideals that most people in this website (or in most progressive circles for that matter) hold.

and, yeah, seeing the kind of people who are reblogging this and what they're saying along with it, I would also like to mention that a lot of them seem to talk about "radicalization" when they actually mean like, just very basic stuff like supporting trans rights, this isn't all of them of course, some people on the reblogs are being a lot more sensitive about it and making actual criticisms of the way many leftists misguidedly shape their ideologies, without actually saying much on the ideologies themselves, which I think is the ideal.

and I think it is important to have all of this stuff in mind. since trying to look at this from some sort of centrist impartial lens is just... sorta silly. right?