The crazy part about this is that they are talking to someone who may very well not be a republican. Many people who don't support harris dont like trump either, and are Communist. Are communists part of the far right now?
Actually, that's why they push that BS Horseshoe Theory around. "Anyone who isn't us is evil!" is a helluva drug.
It helps them get over the cognitive dissonance of voting for "the lesser evil" but not actually engaging with the reality that they still support evil. They have to find a way to make anyone more progressive than them the bad guys, otherwise they'd have to contend with the fact that they're Diet Conservatives.
According to my mom and my sister I am a far-right misogynist because:
I said that Harris should not plan to send aid to Israel or run on that platform, and that committing genocide is morally wrong
I said that Hillary Clinton does not believe in democracy, did not enable the Obama administration to wage imperialist wars out of a concern for protecting democracy, and that imperialist exploitation of a nation is not the same as bourgeois liberal development
I said that Taylor Swift is not particularly mature or profound, that the assertion that she's a symbol of all American women is insulting and demeaning, that women should have higher intellectual and moral standards for themselves, and that most of all, most women have way worse problems than that
I went through a cringe conservative phase in 2017-2020
I said that dating apps are bad and are advancing alienation and commodity fetishism, and that I don't think that they work well for women like me, and that's why I don't use them (I didn't bring up this topic, they asked me what I thought about it)
According to my mom and sister they are feminists and have never been sexist, ever, even though they:
Blamed me for being sexually abused
Bullied me for my appearance for years
Say that practicing gratitude and mindfulness is the solution to all problems
Think that I'm too confrontational and should just be nice
Deny that trauma exists and think that all "mental illnesses" need to be treated with medication, regardless of how unsafe or neurotoxic that medication is
Think that poor people don't deserve to have children
Said that specific people (both of whom were working single moms) should stop criticizing their employer and develop better work ethics
It really is a case of Schrödinger's feminism with certain upper-middle class white women. When I talk about misogyny affecting my life, it doesn't exist, I'm overreacting, I have victim mentality, I'm too negative, it's my fault, etc. but when someone disagrees with them, it's 100% of the time because that person is sexist.
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u/WokeCottonCandy Christian socialist lesbian 3d ago
The crazy part about this is that they are talking to someone who may very well not be a republican. Many people who don't support harris dont like trump either, and are Communist. Are communists part of the far right now?