This is my problem with this thread.
You talk about shit as if anyone knows what you're talking about without referring what the fuck you're talking about.
It's passive aggressive and petty as fuck.
If you have a problem state it. Otherwise reading this shit is a slog. Who are you referring to? What militant leftism do you mean? But you won't. You just need a place to vent because you were probably banned from gaf for making a bad post.
I'll explain it, just ask.
Militant leftism may be a bad phrase, more like uncompromising liberal extremism as a response to real grievances. That and they were mostly directed as off-handed comments about 1 or 2 posters in that thread that are pretty
but were dominating the thread. I choose to see the gallows humor of it all here because that is more in line with what this thread is.
But I will turn it off for a second and risk being held up as another one of those shitty new posters ruining this place. But you deserve an explanation if you want it.
Edit: Spoilered so people can ignore the wall of text incoming.
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You have an issue, a real one, the rise of white nationalism brought on by the Trump phenomenon and an uptick in hate crimes to go along with it. You have issues in minority communities of not just community violence but from those served to protect. All real. All problems. All deserving of solution. I think we all agree on that.
Then you have a thread like that, where about 4-5 of the most extreme liberal pro-gun advocates on the forum - some that have said some things that bordered on justifying violent reprisal for grievances - have latched onto the thread and used it to gloat and encourage further promulgation of this trend. When pressed or challenged many resort to borderline bullying tactics and shaming them. When asked to explain their rationale most shame, get angry or deflect, but a few refer to incidents like Monroe, a very poignant and eye opening part of history no doubt. But then comes the leap, where appeals to things like that are used to justify an escalation of armed resistance to the democratically elected president and incidents that are not at that level country wide. Trends are up but you read that thread and it is framed like black people are being lynched on corners in the Bronx. But of course if you take that framing of course stocking up on guns makes sense. In reality things are worse then before the election, yes, but its not like a minorities personal risk of assault or murder by hate crime just climbed 1000% or something. We are talking a few hundred additional incidents in a country of 100's of millions. Not acceptable, not by any means, but not exactly a brownshirt revolution either. One can't help but see the similarities between the jump in logic and catastrohizing that white nationalists used under Obama or Clinton prior and stuff like in that thread. Not because they are the same, minorities actually have legit grievances and concerns, and I can understand why they would want guns, but the underlying jumps in logic are present nonetheless and it is leading to some odd rationalizations that only a few years ago would of been derided by the same people toward the Right.
But given GAF's nature those sort of conversations are a non-starter there. Any attempt that starts going down that path will be met with accusations of racism, whitesplaining, apathy, Trumpism, or just general bullying tactics that have been effective to drown out dissent in GAF's echo chamber. Or you might even catch a mod who finds your argument guilty of the dastardly "meta-commentary" or backseat moderation and catch a ban. So in the face of all that heightened emotion you are left with 3-4 posters that share the same emotionally driven outlook and prior viewpoints shaming out dissent and drowning out discussion while pushing their more extreme solutions to exaggerated(but still real) problems.
By all means, get your guns if you feel that is your only option. I'm a dirty gun-control liberal and personally think on a large scale it would do more harm then good, but if you feel the need.
