On lemmy.world I posted a comment on how liberals use ‘tankie’ as an invective to shut down dialogue and received tons of hateful replies. I tried to respond in a rational way to each. Someone’s said ‘get educated’ I responded ‘Im reading Norman Finkelstein’s I’ll burn that bridge when I get there’ and tried to keep it civil.

They deleted every comment I made and banned me. Proving my point, they just want to shut down dialogue. Freedom of speech doesn’t existing in those ‘totalitarian’ countries right? But in our ‘enlightened’ western countries we just delete you.

  • RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    I love a good Parenti video, thank you for linking that!

    And thank you for the clarifications comrade, I agree with you completely.

    Unfortunately I was a bit short on time and did not clarify liberalism to the extent that I could. You also bring up good points of view that I didn’t quite have solidified in my thinking yet. As evidenced by your long explanation, it is difficult for a liberal to understand why liberalism is just a path towards fascism. I think you eloquently pointed out that any capitalist system, even with a population who’s opinion has a lot of overlap with communist ideas, will still slip into fascism over time.

    TLDR what we think of as liberalism is actually just when the fascism is contained in the countries we inflict it on.

    Damn that’s a good TLDR