purity tests
purity tests
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My experience with purity tests is that they typically wielded from a place of privilege, often in such a way as to defend themselves from criticism. I've seen purity tests used to dismiss sexual assault and ignore the lived experiences of marginalized communities.
Reality doesn't fit neatly into boxes like the people who wield purity tests seem to want. Sometimes people don't have the same opportunities to learn and understand. Sometimes you have to work with people who support policies that would see you dead. Not only does perfect not exist, the pursuit of it is one of the biggest barriers to achieving actual meaningful progress.
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When you demand perfection over progress you push people out of the learning zone into the panic zone where they double down on their comfort zone
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I feel like the problem with purity tests is that it doesn't allow for progress in the correct direction. Instead they demand either total and complete victory on every issue at once, or else we let the Nazis keep winning.
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Jesus Christ, a meme unironically supporting purity tests, what the actual fuck.
Can any of you that support purity tests actually pass all the purity tests?
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Yes. By lying.
The fucked up thing us I often fail left purity tests for being too far left.
That said: too many red flags and I'm out, even if they got stars or tools on em
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The people on lemmy complaining about purity tests are typically the ones to rally to the defense of a US marine and Blackwater merc with 4 tours in Iraq, 1 in Afghanistan and a tattoo of the SS skull because he is running as a democrat.
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I wonder which liberal pundit said the words “purity tests” because they literally all said it last election when I talked to them.
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Easy to see when there's a proxy argument or flamewar going on because few of the comments engage with what's actually been said 😅 A couple things I see:
- There's a false dichotomy between saying "I don't want purity tests" and being 100% hell-bent on 'perfect purity' of some sort. For example, I came back after a break to see people in Linuxy communities fighting against 'purity testing' a blatant racist, among others. On one 'side' I see "Purity testing is bad!" and on the other 'side' it's "Okay but open bigotry maybe a little bad too???"
- People seem to be seriously insisting that everyone sit down, shut up, and blindly support the US Democratic Party? Never call anything out, never seek 'better,' only accept what's offered from above 🐎🧟 (pretend that's a donkey, okay? 😅 ) Anyway, maybe I'm out of line and "lefty" is farther from "leftist" than I think buuuut... no. The left is about a better world, not quiet acceptance. Maybe try hanging out with other liberals and moderates? Could be they're less eager to argue their own ideas or against what they see as wrong.
tl;dr: True purity tests are for auth garbage but I think what's going on here is people crying "zomg ur the real nazis" when somebody calls out a bigot.
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- Some purity testing is good, infinite depth purity testing is not practical.
- Incremental progress is better than no progress or backward steps. Even for house seats, we have a year or year and a half to push candidates more left or vote for candidates who are more progressive. When election day arrives, again, it is time to be practical.
There are plenty of us on the left that would rather take a practical stance than let the country eat itself to say "I told you so". The DNC can go fly a kite, but I'd like my trans and brown friends to not be harassed and disappeared?
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Seeing like decades of progress torn apart like tissue paper over less that 2 years of the current admin is driving a lot of people insane. The occasional 2 steps forward and 1 step back, followed by 2 steps back and 1 forward was replaced by a lit match on a pile of wood and gasoline.
The system by which you gain incremental progress was just visibly broken for people, and they saw all the rights they had fought years or decades for backslide into nothing in weeks. Def a bit crazy-making and I can see why there's a clash between Clinton liberal-moderates and the people the marginalized people they were supposed to protect, and the people who care about protecting those marginalized people.
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Doing the feds work for free during a government shutdown, no less
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The fuck is a purity test?
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Bit of an oversimplification but: "if you don't agree with me on 100% of the issues you're just as bad as the person who disagrees with me on 100% of the issues."
Often cited as a big reason why we can't come together to defeat the far-right influenced right who do come together when it matters to get in office.
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I mean, obviously candidate X is terrible (his platform is literally to give everyone aids), but I can't vote FOR candidate Y in good faith. You see, world hunger a huge problem and it barely even appears in candidate Y's platform! Similarly, there's no support for people with alopecia, from which my dear friend suffers.
All the dermatological apologists want you to just vote for the person who doesn't want to give everyone aids, but it's time to send a clear message by not voting at this critical time because it was very effective the last time we did it, and the time before that, and the time before that. If you want me to vote, then give me someone to vote FOR! I really don't want to just yell into the internet and not vote for anything, but what choice do I have? I have to stand for something by doing nothing!
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it's a democrat pejorative they use when people say, for example, they wouldn't be willing to vote for gavin newsom as president because he's a transphobe. in other words, a dog whistle for bigots.
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Ah, another 'othering' term that the left will use to divide itself into smaller and weaker groups.
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Purity tests are fine. Requiring Zero parts per trillion levels of purity is a problem. Those people don't exist.
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Strengthening my opinion that mr crypto is a terminally online troll who gets his jollies fostering leftist infighting.
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Tankie comes out again.
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When I posted the meme to call out bigots, it wasn’t a roll call.
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Wow I can't believe you just said that. You've just failed the purity test and youre basically as bad as Donald Trump.....
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Find evidence of me being a bigot
Notice how sunshine/aqua/million other stalker aliases has no evidence?
BTW my grandmother was from Lviv, and the thing sunshine is accusing me of is because I once expressed the opinion that western Europe and the USA are prolonging the war with no intention of fighting Russia because they love to see Slavs kill each other since they don't consider us proper humans.
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I don't want purity tests because we, on the left, are incapable of reaching a consensus on much of anything. If we can't agree to tolerate a limited amount of disagreement with each other, we can't work together on the things we do agree on, and those things tend to be kind of important.
Yeah purity testing has burned so many bridges unnecessarily.
It's one thing to hold yourself to a standard, it's another to repeatedly alienate yourself because nobody is pure enough to measure up.
The American left has been ineffectual because it's as interested in fighting itself as it is fighting conservatives.
Undecided/uninformed voters see the difference between the parties as: endless pissing contest vs proud ignorance. At least the ignorant are having fun and getting shit done.
Until the culture stops prioritizing smuggies over who's the best leftist and starts prioritizing meaningful action we're just going to keep losing.
We need to start treating politics as a popularity contest and not like a reddit comments pissing contest.