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Turns out, far-right shitheads are still far-right shitheads
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Tbf, here in Germany for example there's still a sizable communist movement calling Hamas anti-colonialist freedom fighters. Maybe most of them aren't seeing them as communists, but they definitely see them as left-wing and deserving of left-wing support
Well "anti colonialist" and "freedom fighter" do not a communist make.
Though I can see how a connection could be made that the force fighting an apartheid settler colonial power aligns with anti apartheid anti colonial sentiment.
But critical support is kind of a nuanced thing that usually isn't understood well or interpreted charitably. It often follows the same logic of picking the lesser of two evils as a winning electoral strategy. Which means people end up supporting objectively bad things because they see it defeating an objectively worse thing.
being anti-colonial is not the same thing as being left wing? nor is being left wing a pre-requisite of receiving left wing support.
Correct, but there is a sizeable portion of terminally online leftists who do believe that opposing all western interests, current and historic, is a necessary condition of leftist ideology. They are called campists and they are all over Lemmy.
This is also the prevailing opinion of tankies on Lemmy. I've seen more than a handful of people on here saying they want to "write in Hamas" for the US election.