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.
Liberals don’t believe there are opposing view points. There’s the correct liberal facts and then there’s everyone else who isn’t as smart as them.
A lot of their arguments make a lot more sense when you come at them from this angle. They are the “correct” ones in all things, even something they didn’t know about 5 minutes ago, which means any attempts to educate are actually just attempts to win a debate and knowledge is irrelevant to how correct someone is on an issue. Which is why they so often dismiss a source that disagrees with them out of hand, even “trusted” liberal sources. Their position is already the correct one, which means any evidence to the contrary is just trying to trick them and they’ll use everything from dehumanisation to emotional manipulation to vague threats and insults to give themselves the mental wiggle room needed to continue ignoring it.
Don’t forget how ableist they get if you disagree with them.
Not to mention homophobia or sexism. Bigotry is fine if its against someone who deserves it.
Oh, I’m wrong about the number of political parties in the People’s Republic of China am I? Well have you considered that you are gay with Xi Xinping?
“I’m, only saying it because Xi Xingping would have a problem, with it, not me. If you’re offended by my causal homophobia it’s because you’re the real homophobe!”
TBF I’ve seen people here and on Hexbear do a bit of that, myself included. Deing myself is a process.
They claim inclusivity and empathy because they are the “good guy team” and the good guys support those things. Being a good guy is an inherent trait to them, like being tall. You’re either on the good guy team and all your actions are good (or justifiable) or you’re not, and your every action is an evil one by default. Which is how they can see things like China’s poverty alleviation program or Cuba’s massive success in medicine and conclude that these universal goods are actually evil, because the bad guy team is the one doing them.
Being a good guy is an inherent trait to them, like being tall.
This is pretty funny to me as I recently had a lib refuse to acknowledge that the height of the Chinese population has greatly increased over the past 40 years and is now equivalent to or slightly greater than the height of the average hog… libs love their racialized stereotypes.
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.
