I don't remember, nor am I going to go through old posts. I think you can understand how comments like this can rub people the wrong way.
Ok so let me give you a little bit of context first:
During multiple discussions on this thread, I tried to convince Zemmi, who seemed to be open to discussion about the danger of Trump and conservatism. Especially because she had told me that she was racialized and I was fearing for her safety. Multiple time, she replicated by bringing up the fact she had witnessed the danger of liberals thinking through her children.
She told me that her children had told her that teachers were teaching themabout the notion of black people still being dominated (
a social science fact) and since she didn't feel like it was the case for her, she repetitively told me that she had removed her children from "liberal school".
I thought that she would be open to discussion. In fact I made the mistake of thinking that she would be most likely to listen to people telling her to be afraid of Trump, especially because she was not completely sold on Trump (
or so I thought)
So I didn't gave up on her, thinking that there was a good discussion happening. Then one day, she told me that she finally voted for Trump. Thus allowing fascism to appear and putting her and her family in danger by result.
So, disappointed, I told her this:
props to you to be able to face your daughter while defending Trump and Musk. I wouldn't be able to do that personnaly.
As you can see, the one attacked here is Zemmi. Not her daughter, not her son, not her family. Yet EVERYYYYYYONE dunked on me. I was called a fear mongerer, exagerator. That Trump was so scary or dangerous. I was told that I shouldn't attack the family of people (
which I hadn't)
THis is what you recall. Not my words to Zemmi. Your own preconception of these words through the social pressure that followed. The social pressure was so strong that for the first time I apologized in fear on having gotten too far.
I was not even close. Trump voters voted willlingly for a fascist despite the warnings and Zemmi defended Musk who proved his fascistic tendancies himself (
without mentionning all the horrible things that he did).
This jab was completely deserved. Yes, it's was a low blow, but far nicer that most things you people are willing to send toward me everyday.
I do, but not at the risk of you doxxing yourself to prove it. If you can share in a way that doesn't then I'd be happy to listen.
My reason why is that I just cannot see who you currently are in whom you claim to have once been. Granted, I've had my fair share of transformations that I've also shared, so I guess I'm being overly suspicious. My bad.
I will not dox myself so you will have to believe the following:
I was never full fledge far rightist. Like I told many times, I only had the same MINDSET as one, not the complete belief system.
YET....
I was borderline islamophobic, sexist, sanist with myself and others, bordeline antisemitic even. I thought that my disdain of SJW was ethical, that Islam was the problem even tho I had nothing against muslims
(or so I thought), that governements were completely run by jewish lobbies
(yeah, I was a fan of a guy named Dieudo at the time, ask Mathias, he will tell you about him). I thought world leaders were behind the world trade center collapse, that people in power were hidding the truth about the pyramids.
I thought we should force people to get a permit to vote. That being a man was to suffer without complaints as my duty was to overcome my disability on my own, that poor people should not make families (literally). I remember a conversation about my wish that we would select genes in the future to get rid of disabilities (
was even called a eugenist at the time by the girl of my brother at the same table at the time). Although I didn't hate racialized people, I believed in the racist propaganda about what I thought was the reason for their superior number in prison. I thought we should allow any compagnies to fire anyone if they deemed it so to protect projects, I thought people who didn't work (
like I was) were just lazy
I thought that I was lazy and I just needed to "try harder"
I thought we should have a leader who do not care about politics, someone not on the right and not on the left, and the center, because ... i didn't know why, I just hated political debate and PC langage. I thought feminists were ruining their fights. I started to believe the words of the far rightist on youtube about masculinity. I thought muslims had a responsibility with the terrorist attack... for not doing more to eject the bad apples.. I thought we should also get a permit to make families.
But.. I had other more contradictory beliefs. I never believed in frontiers, I was still believing in the potential of humanity, I had gay friends at the beginning who prevented me from becoming homophobic (
even tho I would have been probably transphobic over time if I had been aware of them). I believed in science
(I was completely ignorant about it).
With enough time, I could have become a straight up fascist, worst than most people here. I was heading straight toward that point at FULL speed. So far that I repeatitively had argument siblings who were leftist already. I wish my words were exagerations, but they are not.
BUT
One day, don't ask me how, I asked myself if there was a contradictor for a specific domain of my belief system. So I checked. Words started to pop up.. "confirmation biases", "heuristics", "self-conving thinking", "circular argumentations"... I had no idea these terms existed. . The world of critical thinking had just opened up to me.
That's how I started to think. Not by myself, not for myself, but critically, carefully and patiently.
I was so
shocked and full of shame that I had defended and said fucked up shits while making people around me confused and worried, that I created a big mantra :
Always choose the most ethical path.