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i think it's even more online, which is that this person emphatically does NOT like Hasan, but sees their 'identity' as an online leftist being linked to him cos of other leftists watching him, and now has the need to run to the internet to rub it in everyone's face that 'their' person did something wrong, and therefore you are being a 'bad' leftists by liking Hasan, meaning I can discount you as being a part of the thing I identify with and leaving me as the true leftist
it's extremely online, especially with trying to turn it around into this smug, sarcastic rhetorical thing where they're preemptively on the attack against their 'Hasan stan' boogeyman
Absolutely a bit. This is a couple layers, too. Ultimately, when you look at their other posting, and probable past accounts, they're making fun of this site and kind of satirizing it. They're often fishing for the line of what kind of unhinged take people here will believe could be coming from a member of the community sincerely or be accepted.
Not denying this happens here, but I'll be honest this site feels 10x better about it than most, especially
. If anything I'd argue we have some users who go a bit too far in the opposite direction where they seem really dedicated to finding any and all reasons to hate any left leaning public figure. Even if they're usually right they get a bit to... fervent about it.
Hot take: I think this impulse we have here to try and make sure everyone and everything we like is sufficiently "leftist" is silly and a waste of time. Liberalism is the dominant ideology of the day, most people are Libs. I've just accepted a lot of people I like are Libs. I don't get the need to scour the social media of every random video game reviewer or whatever I like to make sure they've never had a Lib take and then post here when I inevitably find one. Just enjoy their video on why Stardew Valley is good and focus on more productive shit.
Even if they WERE my friends, I have plenty of friends who are Libs, I wouldn't have any friends where I live if I insisted only only befriending people as left as me. You don't have to defend their Lib takes, just accept their Libs and move on.
There were a few people on this site parroting that same opinion so idk if that's an exclusively Lib take