Please define ‘the radical left.’
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months agoI’m pretty sure reddit and most social media is bias to the left. Maybe you should check your own beliefs as it sounds like you are part of the radical left like most people here.
When I say far right I’m talking about antisemitic beliefs that are often rooted in racist religious beliefs. That’s not your average conservative.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I’m mostly to the people who politically very liberal.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think you have some definition issues here… Because ‘liberal’ according to my dictionary when used in a political sense means “relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.”
That really doesn’t sound especially radical to me.
Care to try again?
Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sounds to me like OP has the Asleep Mind Virus.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That isn’t even close to a definition, that is basically just a synonym.
It is like describing a cube as cubistic.
highenergyphysics@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah really weird how you people claim to not support racist religious fascists yet vote for them every time
Fucking fascist doesn’t even know the difference between liberal and leftist
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Well yes, I am part of the ‘radical left’, and proudly so, by that mean I believe in healthcare, food and a place to live for all people regardless of any qualifier and think the political/economic systems in place now will not achieve that.
I agree the average conservative is not a believer in that sort of antisemitism, but it’s not uncommon. In the terms of US politics, social media platforms do have a left bias, from a more global perspective though they are center or center-right, and overall just do whatever will protect their profits. Reddit, Twitter, others will ban left-wing and anti-capitalist groups and allow their algorithms to push content they know encourages far-right violence because it generates more activity.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Furthermore, they may not believe in the Nazi sort of antisemitism, but ask them if this is a Christian country. Ask them if there should be Christian prayer in schools. For a real laugh, ask them if Passover should be made a federal holiday like Christmas.
Because their likely answers to all of those are, at a certain level, antisemitic. Maybe not knowingly so, but still antisemitic. It is antisemitic (and anti-every other group that isn’t Christian) to expect this to be a Christian country that works on Christian principles.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
What you call antisemitic is just not being a Jewish nation. If you are Jewish you are free to believe what you want without being blow up or harmed. Attacking the Jewish population and or blaming them for historical events is what I consider antisemitic.
You do bring up a good point about the US being a sort of Christian nation. I guess that is history I suppose.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No.
If you say America is a Christian nation, you are being antisemitic.
If you say there should be Christian prayer in American schools, you are being antisemitic.
If you say under no circumstances should a Jewish holiday be given the same prominence as a Christian holiday, you are being antisemitic.
You just don’t realize it.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
“If God truly does exist, He more so loves the atheist who questions the world around him than the Christian who blindly follows.” -Thomas Jefferson
More than half of the Founding Fathers were agnostic/atheists. They specifically wrote the Constitution to keep (any kind of) religion out of the government. The idea that America has ever been a “Christian nation” is rooted in a false history meant to deny the right of religious freedom to others. Pushing Christian holidays and religious rights while ignoring equal treatment of other religions is definitely antisemitism, just not the blowing up temples kind. It’s also anti-every other kind of religion as well. “Equal but different” wasn’t equal in regards to gay marriage or segregation, and it certainly isn’t in regards to religious freedom.
Our history is full of “little” lies like this designed to shape our perception of the country. Such as the fact that we’re never told that the Puritans were a bunch of religious extremists who came to America because they were exiled from England after trying to assassinate the king and replace him with their own puppet to force their religion on the rest of the country. Or that Hitler was inspired by America’s treatment of the Native Americans when it came to dealing with the Jews, immigrants, and LGBTQ people in Germany, and considered the US a “sister nation” with similar ideals to his (he even talks about it in one of his books). The entirety of Europe hides the fact along with us that the Nazis had a lot of support and that most leaders at the time didn’t want to get involved in fighting Germany right up until they invaded their country specifically. Did you know there’s a statue in Ireland honoring the various Native American tribal nations for their humanitarian aid during the Potato Famine because they were some of the only groups to provide any aid? Or that there wasn’t even actually a famine at all? There was a food shortage, but there was plenty of food - if you were British. The British tried to starve the Irish in an ethnic cleansing so they could take their land.
I ain’t here to say you’re bad or stupid or some nonsense because of your opinion, but as Thomas Jefferson said, question why it’s okay to put a statue of the Ten Commandments on display at a state capitol building but not a statue of Baphomet teaching kids science next to it, because you’ll often be surprised to find that the history we’ve been taught isn’t the whole story. I know I keep being surprised the more I learn. There’s tons of little things we take for granted in our daily life that are rooted in systems built with malicious intent. I’m still disgusted by the fact that one of the architects building the highways in New York designed the bridges around where he lived to be too low for buses to go under specifically so black kids couldn’t take the bus to the beaches near his neighborhood.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I would say if social media has any form of left leaning bias in regards to US politics, it’s entirely down to the userbase and not the platform. It’s been shown that content from left-wing politicians and groups gets buried by the algorithms on places like Facebook and Twitter when compared to content from right-wing groups and politicians on a pretty consistent basis.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I’m not sure there is alternative to “capitalism” as you call it. As it turns out we are all greedy and to add salt to the wound all of the Communist revolutions failed within a short time and caused a lot of bloodshed.
I’m scarred of communism because it causes death and starvation in the end.
theblueredditrefugee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
All that is baseless capitalist propaganda