Thread:Alemas2005/@comment-4964341-20170106193925/@comment-4964341-20170106215225

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Keplers wrote: Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Keplers wrote: [11:44]  new forums, what [11:44]  the alt-LMBs [...] [11:44]  alt for alt right amirite because they're run by keplers

I'm sorry, that's not a legitimate concern, and it shows to me that Cay did intend to harm with her previous comments. This is taken from the same chatlog as the OP. Caysie said on chat that this was a joke. How is misidentifying/making a joke about your political identity an insult? You and your friends have called me a communist (and other far left labels) that are not accurate to my views on politics (I am actually much more of a centrist than some of you think). I've never taken this as an insult, rather I find it fairly amusing. No harm, I assume, was intended, and none was done. If you can call me a communist, Caysie can call you alt-right. Get over it. "Communist" can be widely applied to more moderate groups than North Korea, and I think Guac gets that. Alt-right is explicitly hateful and she may as well have called me a Nazi. I really... don't like that. She's not one of my close friends, and it really came across awfully. I didn't even mention Guac? Well anyways, alt-right is thrown around a lot both by people who identify as alt-right and people who think the alt-right is terrible. Certainly so-called "alt-right" people have never done things comparable to so-called "communists" (e.g. Stalin, Mao). Of course communism is a broad term the refers to many ideologies, many of them more moderate. But some people also use alt-right to refer to less egregious groups (so I guess ones who aren't white supremacists?).

Basically, political labels are always messy and can refer to a large number of ideas. Neither communist nor alt-right should be taken as an insult inherently. Also, you have given the impression that you might be part of the alt-right when you do things like defend Milo Yiannopoulos's garbage articles.

If you don't want to be called something, just ask people to stop. Don't assume it's a personal attack. I said that because Guac's an unironic communist and it's pretty clear that he's not puttin' me in a gulag or having me shot. I've really never seen alt-right used in a way other than disparaging or to refer to groups that are either fully radical or dance with radicalism.

Ey. I didn't defend it.

Aye.