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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The problem with US politics is that there are only two sides, two parties. This lumps together all the worst elements of a particular point of view with the more moderate or logical ones.

The extreme elements of the American left are doing the incredibly ironic thing of reintroducing racist concepts, such as segregation, under the idea of it being somehow progressive. State that the slaves brought to the US were bought on African markets that existed centuries before Europeans ever took interest and you'll get a veritable social media lynching mob come after you because it doesn't fit in the idea that anyone with European origins need to feel shame for history long gone. I had an argument in Discord voice chats three times with some American leftists who were adamant that racism was entirely created by white people and that no other ethnic group in the world is capable of being racist (an ironically racist statement). These same kinds of people thought they could educate Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the RPG Cyberpunk, on racism because they wanted him to exclude black characters fram fictional gang called "The Animals" and didn't like the existence of a Haitian gang called "The Voodoo Boys".

In short; uneducated dumbasses who think they can speak for people who they never even met or consulted with, and get incredibly vengeful to the point of ruining people's lives if you call them out on their bullshit. That is why someone can look up at how fucked up American politics is and say. without much difficulty, "Both sides are equally shit. Just choose a flavour".