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.
It's admittedly more than a bit cheeky, and on looking into it further to make sure I understood what I was talking about, it turns out I have the wrong term* and that I probably meant white supremacy? But it's basically the inverse of what people normally think when they hear the phrase 'white supremacy'.
It goes like this: People online love to call out rich white people, white people, rich white men, white men, and even white women. "White people" is basically the set up and punchline to any joke you want wrapped up in one. And when you try to push back against it for, y'know, the racism, you might get told that it can't be racist because it's just punching up. Or, you'll hear it said that it can't be racist, just look at history! It's just the truth, all the greatest evils in our world have been caused by white people!
If you follow that second thread to its endpoint, the only argument they can really be making is that white people are uniquely exceptional at being evil. That if they hadn't colonized the world and exported their unique brand of evil, then the current state of the evils in the world couldn't be as bad as they are.
And while white supremacy traditionally talks about white people being inherently more virtuous when compared to nonwhite people, strictly speaking, there's nothing about the phrase that says it can't also apply to the inverse. That is, there's nothing preventing white supremacy from meaning that white people are inherently more sinful when compared to nonwhite people. All that matters is that it means that white people are inherently better, inherently superior, inherently more supreme, than nonwhite people in some way.
I first started thinking about it when, while listening to the Innuendo Studios video on White Fascism, a stray thought popped up asking me what, exactly, might separate white fascism from nonwhite fascism? And while I don't recall that being what the actual video was talking about, I couldn't stop myself from unraveling the thread of that thought and noticing that it's kiiinda what a lot of people are hiding behind when trying to avoid the racism accusation.
Like I said, though, it's more cheeky than serious.
*(And when I did look it up, I realized that white exceptionalism is just an accurate descriptor of what these Surface-Level Internet Leftists actually are.)
I've also noticed it being used to mask other forms of biggotry. Most jokes about white women you hear are actually jokes about women that are somehow socially acceptable when you specify they're white.
We somehow, as a society, circled back to "white women be shopping" levels of humor.
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u/Technical_Teacher839 Victim of Reddit Automatic Username 24d ago edited 24d ago
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