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  • When you build your identity around hating something, you become dependent upon its existence

    • They're like fascists

    • That is quite an ironic thing to say in a community dedicated to mocking tankies.

      That is, unless you were referring to the community itself.

      • I'm taking a jab at both. At least here it's mostly memes.

      • Who builds their identity around this community? If anyone builds their identity around this community, you will see me happily mocking them for that.

        • Communities have identity as well, though I have occasionally encountered users who seem to share the same identity as this community; moderate liberal types who seem to transform into reactionaries upon encountering leftists. Authoritarians are a real presence in leftist spaces, but this whole tankie discourse lends itself to reactionary thinking.

          • Criticizing people who support atrocities leads itself to reactionary thinking. Great.

          • You are changing what you said. No one said communities don't have identity. You were talking about building your identity around a community.

            The Star Trek community here on Lemmy has an identity. Trekkies as a whole have an identity. I'm a Trekkie. I don't build my identity around it. People seeing me walking around in public wouldn't automatically say, "that guy is a fan of Star Trek." Unless maybe I'm wearing this shirt, which I wear because I base my identity around things that make me laugh.

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