/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Unless men are maddened in the battlefield they cannot stand it to hear appeals for help and not respond to them. The hero goes, and what the hero does, all feel they ought to have done as well. The sophisms of the brain cannot resist the mutual aid feeling, because this feeling has been nurtured by thousands of years of human social life and hundreds of thousands of years of prehuman life in societies.
-Kropotkin

In the US when I hear a defense of our founding fathers who owned slaves, particularly Jefferson and Washington, I always hear that morals were just different back then and that you basically can’t expect these people to know any better in 1776. This is stupid.

Morality is a constant. You know when you’re harming someone or inconveniencing them. You should think of how they feel about it and you should judge particularly impactful interactions for yourself and others from as many angles as possible as many times as possible. Don’t be neurotic, but hearing the screams of someone being whipped shouldn’t take a struggle session and psychological damage to evoke emotions over. Ruminating on all the memories that stick out we which ones we could’ve and should’ve acted better in. It’s a natural, gut instinct that some defective people may be born without, but it’s a common factor that should be the basis for society.

This is very vague, I’ve only described a notion of what’s “moral” or “not moral” and these categories do need to be demystified, but the constant shifting and adjusting for moral shores is the job of legislatures. I know many will come and start posing moral hypotheticals which I’ll be happy to answer, but in a world where were giving back to the billionaires directly without even bothering to mask it, giving back to foreign proxy’s with shrinking domestic protections, and giving back to politicians, cops and even criminals willing to abuse the courts system without any consideration or efficiency for the people making the system run, I want to focus on at least starting to round the edges.

I know this places namesake is 4chan. I see the reading list contains antisemitic texts, not just chapters from Bakunin, but shit like The Jewish Question and a section on German Idealism. I’m not an idiot, but clearly you’re all here because you feel something that keeps you off platforms like instagram and twitter and yet a compulsion to strive for better than 4chan. Typically the most politically involved vary the most, this site might in reality have one of the bigger tents out there for its limited size, and I want to try to appeal to as many as I can with the following; People will be born into society. Society should be ready to handle them. No matter anyone’s ethnicity, we all share 99+% of our genes. There will always need to be people at the bottom middle and top and we should design a system into which we would happily stumble blind, where those distinctions are made by matter of talent, acquired skill, and virtue, not whether you were born to one group or another. Racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and all the other causes and effects of colonialism are not just morally evil, they are one of the greatest cancers human society has ever suffered from and thankfully one I pray we have put in the rear view mirror. However when I see the amount of hostility towards extremely marginalized groups like illegal immigrants, trans people, women, and Jews in even more progressive circles I wonder if this receding cancer is more like a malignant tumor, every now and then flaring up in bouts of genocide in perpetuity. Well I want to leave you with one more quote that I hope gets my point across.

The fact is that the greatest crimes are caused by excess, and not by necessity. Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold, and hence great is the honor bestowed not on he who kills a thief but on him who kills a tyrant.
-Aristotle