i could probably be described as ‘intolerable’ when it comes to my utter rejection of the word. imo the deconstruction of the left/right dichotomy is the most important cultural issue to tackle in the west before any other decent organizing or education can happen. politics in the west is such that you can never exactly know what someone is referring to when they use these terms so they’re devastatingly effective at muddying the waters
i could probably be described as ‘intolerable’ when it comes to my utter rejection of the word. imo the deconstruction of the left/right dichotomy is the most important cultural issue to tackle in the west before any other decent organizing or education can happen. politics in the west is such that you can never exactly know what someone is referring to when they use these terms so they’re devastatingly effective at muddying the waters
I have even seen people equating the violence of the oppressed with the violence of the oppressors calling themselves leftists in the west.
“American Exceptional ism” strikes again, by design.