Leftism rejects objective moral absolutes, therefore, when leftists use words, it doesn't correlate to any fundamental meaning. "Nazi" and "fascist" and "racist" are just group signaling cues without any connection to the actual meaning of the word. That's how they can hold obviously contradictory views without experiencing cognitive dissonance.
That, or leftists just aren't very bright 🤷🏼♂️.
Aren’t very bright. Could you explain what u mean by using words without connection to its meaning?
Sure. Leftists love calling people like Trump a "Nazi". A Nazi is a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party of the 1930s. The party no longer exists, and Trump is not a member of it. So maybe they're using it to refer to Nazi ideology? Nazis believed in Aryan racial supremacy and were genocidal anti-Semites. Trump was the biggest supporter of the state of Israel among recent presidents. The people calling him a "Nazi" are opposed to the existence of the state of Israel and try to get Jews cancelled online. So there's no correlation there, either.
Leftists also love calling people "fascist". Fascism is a system of government where corporations are controlled and work closely with a centralized authoritarian government. Leftists called for the government to force private social media corporations to censor "fascists" from their platform 🤯. Apparently without a hint of cognitive dissonance.
When leftists use a word, it's not to express an idea related to the definition of the word. It's more like when a 5 year old says "Mommmmyyyyyyyy, he's being a poopy head, waaaaaaaaaaaa!" She's not using the term "poopy head" to describe that her brother has feces on his head. It's just a social signal to say that he did something she didn't like, and since the world revolves around her, anyone who does something she doesn't like is a Bad Person ™ (Nazi, fascist, racist etc).
Conservatives don't understand how the words are being used, so they respond with "no I am not a Nazi" and logical arguments to show that they aren't. That's as ineffective as telling the 5 year old "no your brother does not have poop on his head" instead of "Karen, stop saying naughty words and being a tattletale or I'm going to spank you and send you to your room without supper." Which is also basically how conservatives should respond to leftists calling them derogatory names.
👌love the metaphor
Aren't you kinda doing the same thing by calling these particular protesters leftists? One could argue that anti-semitic positions are not compatible with left political values.
I don't know what left political values are. I look at people like these protesters and their "values" seem incoherent to me. I'm using leftist because these people politically support the left wing parties. Describing them as liberals in the classical sense wouldn't be correct, they certainly don't have liberal values. Is there a more accurate word to describe this group?
well, that's exactly my point. you use the term leftism without "any connection to the actual meaning of the word".
I'm using leftist to refer to people who support the left wing political parties. I think that's the meaning of the word. If there's a more accurate word to describe that group I'd certainly use it.
I'm specifically using leftist instead of liberal because their actions and what appears to be their values have no connection to the meaning of the word "liberal".
idk where you're from, but I'm pretty sure discrimination based on ethnicity or religious beliefs is something more related to the political right.
One would certainly think so, but these college protesters definitely aren't on the political right, they've been about as solidly supportive of the political left as possible.
I see, such methods would definitely be fucked up. but i found the quoted article and it gives quite a different picture if you read past the clickbaity headline:
