The thing about this that really makes me ashamed of the democratic establishment is the depiction of the girl on the right vs on the left. This post is literally trying to marginalize progressives. Just look at lemmy, half the progressives here are cishet conputer programmers and Linux nerds in their 40s. This post is trying to enforce a harmful stereotype to make progressives seem like a smaller, less influencial, more radicalized group. It’s already playing into bigotry: the progressive is shown as younger (ageism), with darker skin (racism), more “radical” views, as a drug addict., etc; enforcing the bias that progressives are somehow irresponsible young’uns with unrealistic world-views. Fuck this shit. Never thought I’d see something so obviously bigoted on Lemmy.
I swear the depictions are put together by the right as a way to show how “druggie, blue haired people” are trying to take over, belittle and make them seem small. Its a horrible and incorrect stereotype.
This mostly comes down to interpretation of the artists intent.
I think that it was the intent to lean into those stereotypes and emphasize that is what conservatives fear the most… these two groups calmly working together rather than opposing each other. Making it more subtle may not get their point across.
That’s what I took away from it too. I don’t see two different political spectrum people, it’s people who have different concerns coming together and going “I care about this, you care about that, we can get to that with time, but we both agree, these assholes are against all of us and they gotta go.”
One says “free Palestine, open borders” the other has a pride flag and a “science is real” button. But they both have “no kings” and “eat the rich” which is where they can align and take solidarity with each other against corporations and billionaires.
It’s what politics are meant to be. We can debate the finer details after we take care of the people, but the well-being of everyone needs to come first no matter what.
Hell we used to have that. Not that long ago the biggest flip flop for politics was abortion vs gay rights and that was kind of it as far as the big stage “swing items” for a lot of people. But as these politicians ignored the needs of the people they’ve spun up more bullshit to keep people distracted while continuing to ignore more of the needs and wants of the people.
We have to come together as an American community to give standard of living to everyone and take our needs back from the fat cats absorbing the countries wealth for yachts and data centers.
The thing about this that really makes me ashamed of the democratic establishment is the depiction of the girl on the right vs on the left. This post is literally trying to marginalize progressives. Just look at lemmy, half the progressives here are cishet conputer programmers and Linux nerds in their 40s. This post is trying to enforce a harmful stereotype to make progressives seem like a smaller, less influencial, more radicalized group. It’s already playing into bigotry: the progressive is shown as younger (ageism), with darker skin (racism), more “radical” views, as a drug addict., etc; enforcing the bias that progressives are somehow irresponsible young’uns with unrealistic world-views. Fuck this shit. Never thought I’d see something so obviously bigoted on Lemmy.
I mean, you’re not wrong about most of it. But I don’t code, and am a very irresponsible progressive.
I swear the depictions are put together by the right as a way to show how “druggie, blue haired people” are trying to take over, belittle and make them seem small. Its a horrible and incorrect stereotype.
This mostly comes down to interpretation of the artists intent.
I think that it was the intent to lean into those stereotypes and emphasize that is what conservatives fear the most… these two groups calmly working together rather than opposing each other. Making it more subtle may not get their point across.
If centrists ever stop fighting progressives and not republicans, republicans might have something to fear.
That’s what I took away from it too. I don’t see two different political spectrum people, it’s people who have different concerns coming together and going “I care about this, you care about that, we can get to that with time, but we both agree, these assholes are against all of us and they gotta go.”
One says “free Palestine, open borders” the other has a pride flag and a “science is real” button. But they both have “no kings” and “eat the rich” which is where they can align and take solidarity with each other against corporations and billionaires.
It’s what politics are meant to be. We can debate the finer details after we take care of the people, but the well-being of everyone needs to come first no matter what.
Hell we used to have that. Not that long ago the biggest flip flop for politics was abortion vs gay rights and that was kind of it as far as the big stage “swing items” for a lot of people. But as these politicians ignored the needs of the people they’ve spun up more bullshit to keep people distracted while continuing to ignore more of the needs and wants of the people.
We have to come together as an American community to give standard of living to everyone and take our needs back from the fat cats absorbing the countries wealth for yachts and data centers.
I see a caricature of the left from a centrist who hates them.