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Why are leftists the absolute worse for gatekeeping what makes a true leftist?
It's not gatekeeping, none of the opinions shared here by Linus are categorically leftist. The person retweeting him is erroneously putting him into a box, or knows more about his full ideology than he's shared in the tweet.
It's not gatekeeping to point out that 'leftist' historically doesn't mean 'left of center'. It's used as a reductive - but that's the nature of trying to reduce political ideologies to a single term - label for ideologies that are anti-capitalist. Nothing Linus said in this post points to him being anti-capitalist, he only commented on social issues.
He might still be a leftist, I'll give you that, but this post doesn't really show that.
To keep out fascists and centrists, quite obviously.
Because the direction "left" doesn't actually have any inherent relationship to political ideologies, but people strive for some kind of ideological purity, especially to draw a contrast with a fundamentally unjust society?
The direction left is just an human construct, man.
I am already remembering why I walked away the last time I made the mistake of talking to this guy.
Do you think left and right are fundamental laws of nature?
"Did you stop beating your wife yet?"
No, she’s into masochism and I just can’t deny her.
Why do you ask?
https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
The answer is that it's complicated.
That is chilling.
Chilling is apt. I believe a KGB operative was quoted saying that the leftist is one of their greatest agents - regarding the average leftist's tendency towards infighting. I didn't really understand at the time, because I didn't realize the spectre in the background of this statement is 'while the leftist is busy fighting his neighbor, someone can step in through the chaos and take advantage'.
The revolution eats their own children. No matter how left you are, someone is more left than you.