I hope this is relevant for this community, because I don’t know where else to post this. I’m honestly scared to post it anywhere else.
I live in Eastern Europe. I’m a university student, and recently, we got an American exchange student. They’re a very outspoken liberal.
A few days ago, we took them out with a few mates out for beers (they’re under 21, so they didn’t drink, even though you can here if you’re at least 18) to break the ice and make them feel comfortable. We got talking and because I’ve never been to the US, I asked them what I thought was an innocuous question. For some context, I’ve been a communist for a very long time, and joined the communist party the day I turned 18.
I basically asked them: Why would I vote for Harris? How would that improve the situation in the US and abroad? I’m not too familiar with her, but her politics don’t seem too appealing, especially her support for Israel and her incarceration background.
That made them launch into a screaming rant about how I’m a conservative for doubting her abilities and deserve to be jailed for wanting to infringe on the rights of women. There were a few more insults targeted at me for asking that question, I didn’t really understand them. The entire time, I was not even saying anything, I was honestly too shocked to react, but they just kept screaming until they got up and stormed out in a rage after calling me a Trump supporter, misogynist, and a fascist. My mates were equally confused. We tried to figure it out, but everyone is equally stumped.
I’ve been thinking about that entire situation for a couple days, and I’m so confused about their reaction. They even refuse to speak to me now.
What have I done wrong? Can someone please explain? ☹️ I really don’t understand what happened. We have liberals here of course, but even the worst ones never behave like this.
Yeah, use of that term is very sus to me.
The only other time I’ve heard that phrase was in that wow_mao video “I CAN BE WAY MORE RACIST THAN YOU”, where it was uttered by some Anglo nationalist who also kept calling the other guy that term for people with Down’s syndrome with roots in 18th century racial pseudoscience
Ok. I don’t know who that is.
wow_mao isn’t someone I pay much attention to, but he was on The Deprogram not too long ago because a bunch of classified Pentagon documents were leaked in his Discord server last year, and my cousin likes wow_mao and we talked about him once. My impression is that wow_mao mostly just makes shitposts.
I see.
That “Other Guy” was Haz, lmao
Isn’t Haz that dipshit with the “American Communist Party”?
Yes, the very same
The same Infrared Haz, dipshit spokesman of the “American Communist Party”, who was banned from Hexbear way back when?
idk where you’re going with this, yes it’s that Haz
I’m not going anywhere, I just think it’s funny that he was banned from Hexbear
I really have no idea, I can’t say I spend much time in the same spaces online as racists.
It’s probably best you don’t use that terminology in the future: it’s already dehumanizing on its surface and it’s very popular among cryptofascists to outright nazis.
Duly noted.