I agree it's a material issue in that sense...as many political issues are
Historical materialism and overall marxism (
as a global knowledge) are necessary tools to understand the world in its material reality.
Are there blindspot? Yes. Can we compensate with others tools? Yes (
intersectionnality).
But this is what differenciate people idealizing the world VS people who analyzing it under the most rationnal and ethical lens possible.
Gate keeping doesn't mean you don't share.
It means narrow interpretations.
I consider the term gatekeeping in its original sense as a relationship of power between someone that holds a knowledge and someone who needs the knowledge.
What you are describing is more alike to tone policing and simple labelling. I don't hold any power over you.
For instance, you literally count whom you will consider leftist as per your own world view.
By doing so, you don't just disagree... you invalidate other people views.
For a gatekeeping dynamic to happen, I would need to have access to the power of reduce your agency and access to information.
Me labelling you has nothing to do with gatekeeping, it's me calling out your BS, and you not appreciating that.
Not sure how you are differentiating "bad" from evil here. I think creating sorrow and depriving people of their life are two reasons murder/genocide is evil, lol
Yeah, I agree you can consider this an evil act. As an ethical observation, it works since evil is not used as a sub natural describing entity here but the simple ethical description of human actions.
I usually use the word "bad" as in "we should not do that". Evil is the nature, bad is simply a way to ease the conversation.