Thought this might spur some decent discussion. Lots of libs in the comments but a few good points made.

  • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    23 days ago

    On one hand way too few leftists mask, on the other hand the only people I know still masking are leftists. The only orgs, meetings, and groups that require masks in my area are leftist. I’m sure some individual liberals mask, but not many, and important liberal groups seem to not mask at all. The IWW convention mandatory masks, IWW branches mostly mandate masks, the SWP mandates masks, local PSL mandates masks (idk about nationally), local picket group mandates mask, local DSA masks, etc.

    It’s just kinda hard for me to appreciate this punching left when every criticism is 1000 times worse among every other political position. Biden literally ended masking mandates nationally, and long ago stopped wearing masks.

    Leftists aren’t doing enough, but nobody else is doing anything, at all. Influential liberals have stopped masking years ago, influential right-wingers never masked, influential “non-political” or “centrist” people might as well be those right-wingers with how little they mask.

    • ComradeRat [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      One of the big issues is leftist isnt monolithic. Where I am the communist party and young communist league both consist entirely of anti-maskers who advocate minimal online meetings and maximum group dinners. All four communist orgs in my city are the same in this regard. Its very demoralising lol