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Nobody yet seems to have considered that amongst normal 15-25 year old people, right-wingers are less pleasant to be around than "Marxists", and have comparatively much lower social status. I am not talking about behavioral extremists who interrupt lectures or something. I'm talking about how for some rando college student, their cool friend who is eloquent and gets invited to parties is far more likely to subscribe to some far-left ideology than a far-right one.
Who is more likely to bring you shame when you bring him around, your racist and homophobic programmer friend, or your Marxist friend who reads French literature and watches art films in his free time?
I feel like these dynamics are reflected in other age groups too, to an extent. Right wingers who are smart and eloquent have carved out their niche on the internet, but in meatspace there is a vast discrepancy in likable-human-capital.
Absolutely the Marxist. He could go off at any time and have an embarrassing meltdown at someone, possibly even me, in public, about some tiny slight or microaggression. Being friends with these people is a nightmare of hoping nothing sets them off and ruins the rest of your day. I don't have to worry about that with the other guy.
Real life isn't the internet. The average Marxist friend is just a dude concerned with sounding smart and banging chicks. Maybe it's because I'm a European, but "Marxist" here doesn't mean "cares about microaggressions".
This is simply not true. The Germans cancelled Karl freakin' May for crying out loud.
For a while Euros could enjoy the time lag between cultural changes taking hold in America before they made their way to Europe, but it's over. Right now, from west to east, if you want to call yourself left wing, you have to be on board with San Francisco morality.
What do you mean "have to"? There are plenty of so-called "dirtbag leftists" out there.
Either already canceled and a part of the "far right", or " safe edgy".
I've met dirtbag leftists in person. None of them seemed to be considered far right by those around them. As for "safe edgy", this doesn't mean much unless you define it more specifically because unless you do that, you could always point to any non-canceled dirtbag leftist and say "he was not edgy enough".
Well, I met them on /r/stupidpol. They are "far right", other left wing subs ban you for posting there.
Sorry, I haven't spent enough time on this to give you a proper definition, but "safe edgy" would be someone like Vaush. He's plenty edgy (which occasionally gets him into trouble), but always careful to align himself with the establishment.
Sorry for the really late reply, I'm just looking through some of my old comments. The thing is, sure, on Reddit /r/stupidpol might be considered far right, but that's Reddit, which is a progressive/mainstream Democrat echo-champer. Out in meatspace, in my experience dirtbag leftists are not considered far right at all.
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