Quote (Handcuffs @ May 3 2024 12:28pm)
I do. For instance, if one looks at posts that gain traction in leftist spaces, it is typically messages about being critical, identification of transgressions, efforts to boycott/cancel/protest, and naming intersectional/global injustices.
There's countless instances of the left coming together against something, but rare to find them building anything.
Because building and actual viable solutions are hard. But to cry all the time about Z Y Z issues non-stop and to throw temper tantrums annoying everyone else around you gets old.
I do think a fair amount of these people's intentions are pure, I don't think they are being paid or dishonest, at least large swaths of them but frankly they're just petulant children. Like I get the anti-Isral/anti-war protests, I really do, but then when I see them ganging up on some Jew on campus or completely trashing universities it doesn't make me sympathetic to their cause. Same with blocking highways or destroying art or burning buildings and looting business and many other of these acts. It's shit like that that make me want to be diametrically opposed to their cause.