Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?

https://lemmy.world/post/37296139

Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way? - Lemmy.World

Edit: I didn’t actually think I’d need to put this here but unfortunately I think those kinds of people are here Bigots are not welcome on my post and they are certainly not welcome on my post to co-opt it to spread bigotry I am progressive myself and support human rights and LGBTQ+ people

Constantly. Usually it takes the form of purity tests.

  • “You’re either with me or against me / You’re either part of the solution or part of the problem”
  • “If you don’t satisfy all of my impossible requirements, you’re as bad as a nazi”
  • "We only agree on 99 out of 100 things, so clearly you’re not to be trusted"
  • etc

There are thick, uncrossable lines, and there are a lot of people who don’t mind crossing them. You cannot compromise with a bigot. You cannot find common ground with a person who would subjugate you, or someone who sees you as less than human.

We can have disagreements about many political issues, but when you are standing next to pedophiles, rapists, fascists, and bigots, you shouldn’t be surprised to be called a Nazi.

You cannot compromise with a bigot

To reiterate the comment you’re responding to, you’re reducing a complex world to a binary choice. Everyone that has ever existed is bigoted to some degree, therefore no compromise is possible ever?

Their example of bigots was racists and nazis plus pedos (which isn’t bigotry but universally frowned upon). They did NOT say, “any and all bigots, even of minor things”.

Why are you trying to make them say something they did not say?

You are part of the problem. When someone says, “I like pancakes”, what they SPECIFICALLY DID NOT SAY is, “I hate waffles”.

Similarly, when someone says, “you cannot compromize with nazis and bigots”, what they DID NOT say was, “any concervative deserves the death penalty”. Why do you read it as such?

I quoted an entire sentence exactly. They didn’t say “I like pancakes”, they said “You can’t compromise with waffle-eaters”
English must be so hard for you when you utterly fail to understand how assumptions work. Good job being a piece of shit contributing to the problem you’re attempting to be above.