Left-wing Extremism: A "Diversity" of Tactics

[Sordhau]

I went to a far-left university for my undergraduate education. I was indoctrinated into black nationalism, exclusionary identity politics, and microaggression theory. It took me two years to escape the cancel culture cult.

Microaggression is hardly a theory. It demonstrably exists and I've seen it personally.

[Kepler Technate]

Both sides are equally dangerous.

Dangerous to what? The status quo?

Yes , they maintain the status quo regardless of ideological circumstances.

[Bewaffnete Krafte]

"Black Nationalism" isn't a real thing. New Afrika (the only real modern example of Black Nationalism) is frankly dead in the water and only the thought projects of alternate historians. And, what specifically do you mean by "Microagreesion Theory?"

New Afrika is a concept of black separatism, not alternate history. Not a "what if we had done this" but more of a "why don't we do this".

Originally that's what it was, but nowadays I've never seen anyone ever actually encourage it. It's left the realm of actual movements (if it ever even was one) and is completely dead in the water. That's why I've only ever seen it in alternate history scenarios. It's not really a real thing anymore.

[The Aber]

I have bad news for you about who invented the practice of 'concentration camps'.

The Bolsheviks under Lenin?

The far-left didn't invent the concept of political prisons, but they sure do love using them, even more so make excuses for them.

[Khurkhogur]

"Black Nationalism" isn't a real thing. New Afrika (the only real modern example of Black Nationalism) is frankly dead in the water and only the thought projects of alternate historians. And, what specifically do you mean by "Microagreesion Theory?"

New Afrika is a concept of black separatism, not alternate history. Not a "what if we had done this" but more of a "why don't we do this".

Vs New Afriqa

[Vassenor]

I went to a far-left university for my undergraduate education. I was indoctrinated into black nationalism, exclusionary identity politics, and microaggression theory. It took me two years to escape the cancel culture cult.

Check your bingo cards. I think someone has a full house from all those leftist strawman buzzwords.

[PokemonGirl]

The majority of people on NS are very much not Leftists. Much as I wish that was true it just isn't. The Right has a strong foothold here. Mostly Liberals, many Conservatives, and more-than-I'm-comfortable-with Fascists.

I just want people to be based but they're not lol

Like in this thread alone "the left...they're groooooning!" Based? But that's not reality. I've seen "leftists" call 30 year old women children. They want people to be children so they can stay safe and protected from mean things like jobs and criticism.

Or like the ultra religious parents abusing their lgbt kids. Which I'm sure does happen, I know my parents basically abused me for EVERYTHING. For breathing. I wish I could just say it was because I was gay and pin in on something tangible as opposed to them just being brain dead psychopaths. But ya know what? Maybe a little abuse builds character. Cause God knows they should've been, as should many others.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=On3etueeGIg

I have a whole prayer ritual I do to blasphemy the Holy spirit, but if Christians were like this I'd do guest appearances on the blaze or Alex Jones trying to get prayer back into school BUT THEY'RE NOT everybody sucks lol

[Kubra]

weird I went to a far-right university (UC Santa Cruz, of course) and was indoctrinated into thinking the Holocaust never happened

Holocaust was a horrible Event.
I wish Extremism never had to be Battled with...

I am sorry you had to deal with these colleges...

could be worse, I did my masters at a centrist university (The New School, lovely campus) and one of my seminars was just a professor repeating "inflation=2%" in several different languages.

[Juristonia]

I went to a far-left university for my undergraduate education. I was indoctrinated into black nationalism, exclusionary identity politics, and microaggression theory. It took me two years to escape the cancel culture cult.

This definitely sounds like something that totally happened for realsies.

[Diaboland]

Um can we just talk for a bit about OP's username?

[Bovad]

Um can we just talk for a bit about OP's username?

We have. Please dont start that again.

[Mattopilos III]

NationStates is the worst place to ask that, like 99.99999% of the players are communist

I fucking wish

I miss the person who introduced me to egoism. They were cool, and they helped balance out the channels more.

[Mattopilos III]

Holocaust was a horrible Event.
I wish Extremism never had to be Battled with...

I am sorry you had to deal with these colleges...

could be worse, I did my masters at a centrist university (The New School, lovely campus) and one of my seminars was just a professor repeating "inflation=2%" in several different languages.

Hello old friend - how has NationStates been holding up since I've been gone? Seems mostly the same from what I can see, with a few major names missing. must have all left at some point (most of the right wingers at least).
Also... I don't even know how that would count as a lesson lol.
"Hey I did a business degree, and all I can remember is how to say inflation is 2% in Chinese!"

[Mattopilos III]

I went to a far-left university for my undergraduate education. I was indoctrinated into black nationalism, exclusionary identity politics, and microaggression theory. It took me two years to escape the cancel culture cult.

I went to a far-left university and they forced me to use pronouns and wear fake breasts and a wig, and said I must be "pinkpilled"
Believe me, I posted it on NationStates dot net!

[Kubra]

could be worse, I did my masters at a centrist university (The New School, lovely campus) and one of my seminars was just a professor repeating "inflation=2%" in several different languages.

Hello old friend - how has NationStates been holding up since I've been gone? Seems mostly the same from what I can see, with a few major names missing. must have all left at some point (most of the right wingers at least).
Also... I don't even know how that would count as a lesson lol.
"Hey I did a business degree, and all I can remember is how to say inflation is 2% in Chinese!"

Cmon man you know I'm fuckin' around. Both schools I mentioned are pretty infamously leftist. Like forget the jokes about left-wing universities, UC Santa Cruz and The New School solidly are. The former has a rep as being hippie-dippie as shit and at one point not even assigning grades.
NSG is the same as it has always been. It's generally quite resistant to change of any form, just the names.

[Mattopilos III]

Hello old friend - how has NationStates been holding up since I've been gone? Seems mostly the same from what I can see, with a few major names missing. must have all left at some point (most of the right wingers at least).
Also... I don't even know how that would count as a lesson lol.
"Hey I did a business degree, and all I can remember is how to say inflation is 2% in Chinese!"

Cmon man you know I'm fuckin' around. Both schools I mentioned are pretty infamously leftist. Like forget the jokes about left-wing universities, UC Santa Cruz and The New School solidly are. The former has a rep as being hippie-dippie as shit and at one point not even assigning grades.
NSG is the same as it has always been. It's generally quite resistant to change of any form, just the names.

Haha fair enough. I mean, my uni is pretty "leftist" - I am part of an Ally network to support LGBT+ students and staff, I am part of a network to increase visibility and support for indigenous students, in particular those that struggle due to their distance from university or due to financial issues, and I am part of a mental health first aid network to support those who are going through mental health crises, which is particularly a problem in students (20% of people will have a mental health crisis by age 25 if they are students). As someone with ASD and ADHD (the latter I got diagnosed just this year - wish I knew I had it when I was in school haha!), and also questioning their gender identity (and have previously identified as aroace), it's really great to be able to have those supports so I can keep working without more stress from an unhelpful and unsupportive environment. And I think all those people that complain about things like gender studies (which have been removed from our uni, and certain parties are fighting to get it back. I suspect some people like the person we are mocking were furious it was there...) and pronouns and all that ignore that university is already a stressful, time-consuming, soul crushing environment, and all those things are in place to make it at least BEARABLE. And if you don't have that support, do you think the students are going to do well at your university? No, they won't, they will burn out. And if that is the case, then your university isn't going to be successful, so why bother?.

And good to hear. Used to be on here quite a bit from 2016-2018, and it does seem mostly the same. Got off it once I hit my Honours and PhD since I was too busy, but I'm near the end of it so it is a bit more chill, with me just doing some final experiments and touching up my thesis.

[Kubra]

Cmon man you know I'm fuckin' around. Both schools I mentioned are pretty infamously leftist. Like forget the jokes about left-wing universities, UC Santa Cruz and The New School solidly are. The former has a rep as being hippie-dippie as shit and at one point not even assigning grades.
NSG is the same as it has always been. It's generally quite resistant to change of any form, just the names.

Haha fair enough. I mean, my uni is pretty "leftist" - I am part of an Ally network to support LGBT+ students and staff, I am part of a network to increase visibility and support for indigenous students, in particular those that struggle due to their distance from university or due to financial issues, and I am part of a mental health first aid network to support those who are going through mental health crises, which is particularly a problem in students (20% of people will have a mental health crisis by age 25 if they are students). As someone with ASD and ADHD (the latter I got diagnosed just this year - wish I knew I had it when I was in school haha!), and also questioning their gender identity (and have previously identified as aroace), it's really great to be able to have those supports so I can keep working without more stress from an unhelpful and unsupportive environment. And I think all those people that complain about things like gender studies (which have been removed from our uni, and certain parties are fighting to get it back. I suspect some people like the person we are mocking were furious it was there...) and pronouns and all that ignore that university is already a stressful, time-consuming, soul crushing environment, and all those things are in place to make it at least BEARABLE. And if you don't have that support, do you think the students are going to do well at your university? No, they won't, they will burn out. And if that is the case, then your university isn't going to be successful, so why bother?.

And good to hear. Used to be on here quite a bit from 2016-2018, and it does seem mostly the same. Got off it once I hit my Honours and PhD since I was too busy, but I'm near the end of it so it is a bit more chill, with me just doing some final experiments and touching up my thesis.

I ain't gonna ask you to dox yourself, but every university has a "leftist" contingent. That don't necessarily make em left wing, you feel? Honestly man I've been to a few of the universities within the province, and they're rankable on that count.

[Mattopilos III]

Haha fair enough. I mean, my uni is pretty "leftist" - I am part of an Ally network to support LGBT+ students and staff, I am part of a network to increase visibility and support for indigenous students, in particular those that struggle due to their distance from university or due to financial issues, and I am part of a mental health first aid network to support those who are going through mental health crises, which is particularly a problem in students (20% of people will have a mental health crisis by age 25 if they are students). As someone with ASD and ADHD (the latter I got diagnosed just this year - wish I knew I had it when I was in school haha!), and also questioning their gender identity (and have previously identified as aroace), it's really great to be able to have those supports so I can keep working without more stress from an unhelpful and unsupportive environment. And I think all those people that complain about things like gender studies (which have been removed from our uni, and certain parties are fighting to get it back. I suspect some people like the person we are mocking were furious it was there...) and pronouns and all that ignore that university is already a stressful, time-consuming, soul crushing environment, and all those things are in place to make it at least BEARABLE. And if you don't have that support, do you think the students are going to do well at your university? No, they won't, they will burn out. And if that is the case, then your university isn't going to be successful, so why bother?.

And good to hear. Used to be on here quite a bit from 2016-2018, and it does seem mostly the same. Got off it once I hit my Honours and PhD since I was too busy, but I'm near the end of it so it is a bit more chill, with me just doing some final experiments and touching up my thesis.

I ain't gonna ask you to dox yourself, but every university has a "leftist" contingent. That don't necessarily make em left wing, you feel? Honestly man I've been to a few of the universities within the province, and they're rankable on that count.

Oh don't get me wrong, there's A LOT I can point out as problems at my uni. The party system here is obnoxious - they literally bribe you with free lunch to vote. That's totally not going to lead to issues!
Also the parties are backed by the Young Liberals and Young Labour party groups, so there's definitely some conflict of interest that can occur if they win (one usually does).
Let's not talk about how they choke the money out of international students, by charging them HIGHER university fees UP FRONT. Kinda glad Covid hit them as hard as it did - made them lose soooooo much money when they couldn't get international students in. Serves them right for relying on a model of income that is reliant on shaking international students by the ankles until all their parent's money falls out.

[Kubra]

I ain't gonna ask you to dox yourself, but every university has a "leftist" contingent. That don't necessarily make em left wing, you feel? Honestly man I've been to a few of the universities within the province, and they're rankable on that count.

Oh don't get me wrong, there's A LOT I can point out as problems at my uni. The party system here is obnoxious - they literally bribe you with free lunch to vote. That's totally not going to lead to issues!
Also the parties are backed by the Young Liberals and Young Labour party groups, so there's definitely some conflict of interest that can occur if they win (one usually does).
Let's not talk about how they choke the money out of international students, by charging them HIGHER university fees UP FRONT. Kinda glad Covid hit them as hard as it did - made them lose soooooo much money when they couldn't get international students in. Serves them right for relying on a model of income that is reliant on shaking international students by the ankles until all their parent's money falls out.

ngl back in uni I'd have definitely sold out for a free lunch. I'd have switched my major to business if not for the fact they were totally indifferent to folks coming in and stealing their snax.

[Mattopilos III]

Oh don't get me wrong, there's A LOT I can point out as problems at my uni. The party system here is obnoxious - they literally bribe you with free lunch to vote. That's totally not going to lead to issues!
Also the parties are backed by the Young Liberals and Young Labour party groups, so there's definitely some conflict of interest that can occur if they win (one usually does).
Let's not talk about how they choke the money out of international students, by charging them HIGHER university fees UP FRONT. Kinda glad Covid hit them as hard as it did - made them lose soooooo much money when they couldn't get international students in. Serves them right for relying on a model of income that is reliant on shaking international students by the ankles until all their parent's money falls out.

ngl back in uni I'd have definitely sold out for a free lunch. I'd have switched my major to business if not for the fact they were totally indifferent to folks coming in and stealing their snax.

I mean yeah, I used to live at student accommodation (moved out because it was too expensive), and I didn't turn it down a few times. If anything that makes it more scummy: they give out free food to students... but mostly only when they want you to do something. Not even charity, it's just bribery.

[Kubra]

ngl back in uni I'd have definitely sold out for a free lunch. I'd have switched my major to business if not for the fact they were totally indifferent to folks coming in and stealing their snax.

I mean yeah, I used to live at student accommodation (moved out because it was too expensive), and I didn't turn it down a few times. If anything that makes it more scummy: they give out free food to students... but mostly only when they want you to do something. Not even charity, it's just bribery.

Hey it's only a bribe if you give into why they're giving it
otherwise, it's *expropriation*.

[Drongonia]

I mean yeah, I used to live at student accommodation (moved out because it was too expensive), and I didn't turn it down a few times. If anything that makes it more scummy: they give out free food to students... but mostly only when they want you to do something. Not even charity, it's just bribery.

What makes it worse is that would be illegal if for a local council/state/federal election.

[Mattopilos III]

I mean yeah, I used to live at student accommodation (moved out because it was too expensive), and I didn't turn it down a few times. If anything that makes it more scummy: they give out free food to students... but mostly only when they want you to do something. Not even charity, it's just bribery.

What makes it worse is that would be illegal if for a local council/state/federal election.

Yep, but it's a university, so it's... fuzzy. Technically universities here are public institutions (the one I am in definitely is at least), so... yeah, not sure why this is allowed.
As stated before, this is a university that has parties that are representatives of Young Labor and Young Liberals, the two major parties here. It's clearly tied to state shit.

[Australian rePublic]

I went to a far-left university for my undergraduate education. I was indoctrinated into black nationalism, exclusionary identity politics, and microaggression theory. It took me two years to escape the cancel culture cult.

I went to a far-left university too, but I actually had the balls to challange their far left ideology. They respected my opinion. The same couldn't be said for my sister's far left University, though. With them, it was their way or the highway. I've heard similar horror stories from other far-left universities. To be fair though, I studied business, which is quite contradictory to left ideology, but as far as non-economic matters were concerned, they were very far left

Holocaust was a horrible Event.
I wish Extremism never had to be Battled with...

I am sorry you had to deal with these colleges...

could be worse, I did my masters at a centrist university (The New School, lovely campus) and one of my seminars was just a professor repeating "inflation=2%" in several different languages.

As a centrist, I can confidently say, he's doing centrism wrong

[Australian rePublic]

I ain't gonna ask you to dox yourself, but every university has a "leftist" contingent. That don't necessarily make em left wing, you feel? Honestly man I've been to a few of the universities within the province, and they're rankable on that count.

Oh don't get me wrong, there's A LOT I can point out as problems at my uni. The party system here is obnoxious - they literally bribe you with free lunch to vote. That's totally not going to lead to issues!
Also the parties are backed by the Young Liberals and Young Labour party groups, so there's definitely some conflict of interest that can occur if they win (one usually does).
Let's not talk about how they choke the money out of international students, by charging them HIGHER university fees UP FRONT. Kinda glad Covid hit them as hard as it did - made them lose soooooo much money when they couldn't get international students in. Serves them right for relying on a model of income that is reliant on shaking international students by the ankles until all their parent's money falls out.

Ah yes, nothing screams communism like the extreme of the extreme of the extreme price gouging. I've said it before and I'll say it again, some far-leftists are utter hypocrites