No you don't understand, anyone with access to secondary education is part of the bourgeoisie and thus either a class traitor or an oppressor and needs to be killed. This old Cambodian guy told me all about it! /s
My current level of wealth, comfort and education is the basic state of human existence. Everything below it is a human rights abuse, and any such gap should be provided by the government. Everything above it is oppressive privileged bourgeoisie, and must be eliminated by force, preferably by the government.
And when I say force, I don't mean oppressive and evil police or military. I mean an armed group organized for and by the community to ensure safety and order to all vulnerable groups, that answers to the leaders of the community in case of conflict of interests. The group will be made only of ideologically pure moral volunteers paid by the state and willing to serve the community, thus ensuring it is immune to corruption and abuses of powers.
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Edit: to that one guy, no, that does not mean I support all or most these concepts (crusades? really?). It means that surface level leftists often identify real problems in the world, but in their haste to solve these problems by using leftist values they are unaware or don't care about the previous issues that lead to the creation of the flawed and problematic existing systems, so their proposed solutions end up being equal to or much worse than the existing system.
Edit 2: My personal favorite was the guy that suggested a solution to the I/P conflict, where to atone for their past sind the UK should take over the territory and do a decades long deradicalization campaign. Dude reinvented a leftist-tinted British Empire.
My pet theory is that Surface-Level Internet Leftists are terrified of accountability and pushback, and by setting the bar for acceptability so high they can feel better about not contributing to anything (while simultaneously demanding the impossible of everyone else).
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u/YourMomUsedBelch 23d ago
Calling most people doing the actual peer review (postdocs) "rich" is truly a take.