When I was a grad student and union rep/organizer c. 2023-24 I tried to stand up to this exact sort of shit from other leftists and labor organizers, and I was of course ostracized and antagonized into resigning from those spaces instead

Nobody ever believes me that this happened

April 06, 2026 - 00:47 UTC

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The progressive left spewed that BS back in the mid-1980s (why I didn’t interact much w/ the UW-Madison Teaching Assistants Assn. even though I generally think unions are a Good Thing).

It’s mandatory party line.
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Nah I’m a progressive leftist at a minimum, there’s nothing progressive about the antisemitic slurs and rape apologia that I witnessed from academic “leftists”

And most of these people are so radical that they bristle at being lumped in with “progressive” anyway, so that works out
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