• CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Not necessarily. Some leftists demand conformity in beliefs. “If you don’t believe XYZ, you’re a shill/neoliberal/fascist etc.”

    I feel like favoring free thought and opposing conformity leads to arguments, but demanding conformity leads to enemies (like this meme).

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      Some of the most authoritarian people I come into contact with on any kind of regular basis are “leftists” on Lemmy.

      The ones in real life are not like that. I feel like Reddit’s moderation model really encourages it, and some of them started really taking it to heart when they came to Lemmy which copied that same model.