I’ve noticed a peculiar phenomenon prevalent with the liberals. They have an inclination to diminish the complexity of those they perceive as adversaries by reducing them to caricatures or dehumanizing representations.
For instance, they liken Xi to Winnie the Pooh, depicting him in a manner that belittles his position and influence. Similarly, Putin is portrayed as a mad king, exaggerating his power and malevolence for dramatic effect. They characterize Russians as orcs, implying that they are inherently evil and lacking in humanity’s essential qualities of compassion and reason.
This trend seems to suggest a reluctance among liberals to engage with opposing viewpoints on their own merits, instead choosing to dismiss them outright or diminish their significance through caricatured representations. This approach may serve as a form of psychological defense mechanism, allowing individuals to avoid the discomfort and cognitive dissonance that can arise from confronting unfamiliar or challenging ideas.
A group, claiming to champion values such as empathy, inclusivity, and respect for diversity, appears to be engaging in a peculiar behavior: dehumanizing their opponents by reducing them to caricatures or diminishing their complexity. This trend is as a form of naked hypocrisy.
Totally agree.
This explain why they dismiss not only our talking points but even our very presence on the site with literal flat-earther worthy conspiracy theory based on thought terminating cliche like “you are clearly paid by this or that country” or “the majority of you are bots”. They are trying to gaslight themselves into thinking that the big faction of openly leftists, pro-lgbt, anti-racist peoples they can clearly see on here isn’t real because it break their narrative that they are the good guys, that their position is THE correct one and that anyone who disagree is is just a minority of bad and not very smart peoples. Until now, when radlibs were on mainstream platforms like reddit and twitter, we leftist were a small minority group broken up into smaller groups still that all disagreed with one another and so the only political opposition they could see, or rather couldn’t ignore, were the liberal right, MAGA, GOP, Republicans, etc, which wasn’t a problem to them since the bigotry and stupidity of the liberal right fit well into the aforementioned narrative, but now they are on lemmy where communists are too numerous and organized for anyone on the site to ignore, and the whole left in general who has been growing for a while is reaching a stage where they start to get noticed by a larger audience, a recent evidence of it being the number of liberals on twitter and reddit who have been complaining about far left peoples telling them that they shouldn’t vote for Biden, and so now that they can’t ignore us anymore they are confronted explicitly with a breach of their narrative they have no way to solve and so they resort to trying to patch it up with whatever they can, including the same type of deranged conspiracy theories they make fun of the liberal right for believing in.
Very much agree with all that. The most amusing part for me is that libs have been forced to expose themselves as being utterly intellectually bankrupt now. Anybody outside the lib sphere can see that they have no consistent beliefs, and all the values they champion are paper thin. When push comes to shove they discard their values like a used toilet paper.
I think we all knew that, Their first criticism of any group that has values is that it does not matter, and they are just written on paper and no one will follow them. They cannot even conserve of someone having values strong enough that they would follow them, and not discard them at the first time it becomes inconvenient.
indeed