Both words, “extremist” and “right-wing”, have no real hard definitions.

Is being socially conservative right wing? Is supporting capitalism right wing? Is inertia right wing? Is being progressive and, for example, anti-racist and pro-trans left wing? Is socialism left wing? Is only communism left wing?

What about extremism? Is someone an extremist if they condone violence? Is someone an extremist if they seek to change the system fundamentally? Is someone an extremist if their political beliefs are very strongly held, no matter what they might be?

Since these terms have no real definitions, it’s just shit-slinging.

I will just confidently go into the future knowing that I show compassion and you pride yourself on laughing at people. That’s all the future generations need to know about the 21st century.

I prefer to appreciate who I am, who I was, and stick to my values. There’s way more strength in defying people who laugh at you than in joining them and betraying what you once stood for merely to appease them.

The arrogance of telling someone that “someday” I might “learn” to laugh at myself is astounding given that I am probably older than you.

I would prefer to live in a world where nobody laughs at people, and where people are proud who they were, who they have become; instead of constantly looking back in embarrassment and shame.

… Just think what hill you’re willing to die on here. A hill defending the idea of “giving people some shit” (your words) when they dress or act the way you find embarrassing. When did peer pressure like this become a virtue?

There is a reason “learn to laugh at yourself” is a recurring quote from many people.

Yes, people who laugh at others expect them to grow into their bigotry. I do not laugh at my younger self. I appreciate who I was, who I am, and who I will become. I am proud of scene kids, emo kids, and all the other “alternative” kids who constantly get told they’ll turn into hateful little old adults some day.

ah yes, scene/emo, a subculture famously known for not having dyed hair

Don’t do sXe like that, at least we’re still edgy too.

The entire generational warfare thing is so frustrating because people pretend as if being “anti-boomer” was some kind of revolutionary act while in reality it’s simply more childish infighting among the working class.

The same “good natured ribbing” between siblings that people constantly mislabel as such even though it’s simply bullying, but “boys will be boys”, eh? Sibling relationships that are built on laughing at each other are not “cute”.

Well, guess what, I don’t want to “laugh at my younger self” some time. And I don’t want you to “give me some shit” when you think it’s warranted either. That’s literally just called bullying, and when someone stands up to that, you probably tell them to “learn how to take a joke”. And that’s exactly the mindset (and kind of people) I hope will die out sooner than later.

I want to be a person I would have been proud of becoming when I was younger. Ridiculing and humiliating people for being vulnerable or expressing themselves leads to the exact kind of political climate we have today, and as a German who is familiar with our history it scares me. The Venn diagram between people who make fun of emos, scene kids, furries or whatever other “cringe” minority of the day in a “good hearted” way, and people who “inadvertently” bully them and drive them to suicide, is probably close to a circle.

You telling me I will laugh at my younger self some day tells me exactly one thing: that you laugh at me presently and assume I will be the same when I “grow up”. Newsflash: I do not speak to those adults anymore that used to tell me these things about my teen ages because they - unsurprisingly - just bullied me and thought I would grow up to be as hateful as them eventually. And I still don’t laugh at myself when I was a teenager. As an adult, I am very much in tune with who I used to be, and all my scene/emo/outcast friends besides.

Alternatively: the idea of alternative subcultures being “cringe” and worthy of ridicule, attack and condescending bullying like this rightfully dies out with your generation.

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