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[feotakahari]

The far left’s worst assumption is that no one could genuinely be opposed to mass murder. The right, both far and otherwise, tends towards policies that are mass murder by inaction (letting poor people starve to death, denying sick people medication, etc.) The far left argues direct mass murder of the people who promote these policies. So when you say you don’t want mass murder at all, the far left tends to assume you don’t want to personally commit mass murder. They think you must be totally okay with letting the right kill indirectly, so long as you don’t have to think about it or admit any responsibility for it. Therefore, you must be their enemy, and they don’t listen when you try to tell them you oppose both kinds of mass murder.

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[entanglingbriars]

It's not just mass murder. My position of "I don't want to encourage Nazi-punching because I don't trust the sort of people who like punching Nazis to reliably identify Nazis" has also gotten me side-eyed.