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Just listened to a conversation with amber where she basically makes excuses for Fascists for 40 minutes (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Crustpunk3435@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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stuff like "Well you call them the scum of the earth, why wouldnt they hate you"

Why are parts of the left like this? Seemingly caring more about courting the psychopath incel who wants a white ethnostate rather than stand in solidarity and antiracism with POC?

i always get disgusted and disillusioned when i come upon it

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[-] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 80 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Cause deep down they understand them. White settlers identifying with other white settlers. Even though they might legitimately disagree with them, fundamentally they don’t see them as a threat to their existence and view the disagreement as purely academic. They understand and are sympathetic to how these people arrived at their views. And really they’re only one hardship away from becoming completely reactionary themselves, as we saw with Covid.

Idk, that’s always been my take.

[-] TheSpectreOfGay@hexbear.net 45 points 3 weeks ago

good take, yep

i can see myself going down the incel path, if circumstances were different and i was AMAB, it coulda happened. therefore i have a certain level of empathy and understanding towards those ppl inherently (not that i give a shit about courting them or whatever, fuck that shit lmao). but with poc i need to actually listen to other people's perspectives and stuff instead of just inherently getting it. that's waaay too hard for most white ppl