TankieJerk

Its funny that you list yourself as a historian, I know historians like this who don't really know what history is either. I can also see you moderate a number of communities known to foster bigoted and juvenile misconceptions about history, so I don't think it should be all that surprising that someone doesn't take you all that seriously.(I wrote this before you tried to ban me after claiming to know about Fediverse very much, thanks for setting me up for a funny joke)

If a person understands politics or political philosophy in terms of the pictures of people they like quotes from (such as thinking I'm commenting on Kim Jong Un's politics when I'm talking about how his image is used and why) I'm going to safely deduce that they don't know much about the thing they claim to know a lot about and assume they're not that mature if it is also apparently important to their identity with that lack of knowledge. I run into grown men -- sometimes even historians -- who don't even know what liberalism is beyond the terms they were taught about from different eras of liberal policy; the fundamentals were never taught to them. I'm serious, I know tenured profs who think welfare liberalism and neoliberalism are fundamentally opposed philosophies and that it is the height of nuance to point out that the New Deal was racist. I know people who "love" Malcolm X but think activists are the bad guys if they use violenxe. They'd call themselves leftists, or left leaning, much like you and apparently whoever made that meme.

You're right, I don't take most people like this very seriously and dont really think about them beyond trying to understand why they're so willfully misinformed. I figured you out pretty quick.

I won't see your response.