Libs don't want to accept this- painting it as an uncivil attack relieves them of the cognitive dissonance such thoughts cause them. Banning someone to resolve your own insecurity is obv PTB territory
I do feel like you should know better than to say that, unprompted, directly to a lib mod tho, so it's at least a little bit BPR imo
You may not be trying to misgender Harris, but using object pronouns as if they're an inherently bad thing is pretty insensitive to those who use it/its pronouns
Also, dehumanizing the enemy is pretty slippery rhetoric. You can admit/accept that they're people while advocating for violence against them regardless
I think it's well established at this point that anarchists and 'auth leftists' have a different definition of authoritarian (and 'state' for that matter)
It seems similar to that old debate about 'reverse racism' vs racial prejudice- the sociological definition of racism includes oppression, but the dictionary definition didn't/doesn't, so people were largely arguing over semantics
"Anti-authoritarian leftists" are just anarchists, right? Literally every anarchist I've ever known is constantly shitting on liberals, very often specifically about authoritarian behavior/policy
This feels like it's about something- AI, social media, substance use... I might be reading way too much into this, but this functions as a really fun metaphor for the human tendency to rationalize the pursuit of unhealthy desires by deliberately entering contexts that blur risk perception