#youre too focus to try to whitewash an privileged abuser that you're basically spitting fallacies all the time

[maxdibert]

Well, it's interesting that you say this because:

My great-grandfather was almost executed after spending a year in a fascist prison and being sentenced to death for political reasons. My grandfather ended up in a French concentration camp after fleeing at the end of our civil war—he was 18 when they put him in the camp. Two years later, they took him from there to the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen.

Both of my parents—each on their own—were part of political groups in their youth, leftist groups in a far-right dictatorship. They had trouble with the police because of this, and the political police were no joke, I’m sure you understand. I myself was involved in political groups from the age of 15 to 22, actively engaged groups, and I’ve had my own clashes with neo-Nazi and far-right groups.

If you’re going to lecture someone using the "guerrilla warrior" fallacy, unfortunately, I’m the worst possible person for that to work on.

As someone with a family that lived through a civil war, I can tell you that many people who fight in wars don’t do it out of conviction but out of obligation. Choosing a side often doesn’t depend on you but on which side your town falls under. And privileged people always have it much easier, whether they’re on one side or the other.

This is something that anyone from a society truly devastated by war knows. My parents grew up in antifascist environments—of course, they followed antifascist groups. That was the logical thing to do. They had the means, the education, and the support. I joined antifascist groups in high school, and that doesn’t make you a hero, especially when you have a safety net to fall back on.

A cop cracked my head open when I was 17 and got arrested for protesting outside a school—was that heroic? Well, when you have parents who could walk into the police station with an excellent lawyer and the resources to cover everything, no, it wasn’t that heroic. Heroism is getting up every day, surviving without resources or support, and making it through however you can.

The one who doesn’t understand what they’re talking about is you because it’s clear you have no idea how political activism works beyond the internet. You’ve never had to deal with legal accusations of that nature. If you had been involved in politics, you would have realized that most of the so-called "heroes of the people" are actually nepo babies or middle-class individuals—because they’re the ones who can afford the luxury and privilege of being arrested, getting beaten up, or skipping classes for a strike. And if you don’t understand something as basic as that, then don’t talk about what you don’t know, because with every word you say, you only make yourself look more ignorant and like someone with zero real-life experience on the matter.

I would have loved to see you alone in a clash with a group of neo-Nazis. I have been in clashes with neo-Nazis, and I’m not going to wear a medal for it because it’s not something praiseworthy. It’s what was expected of someone like me and what my position as a relatively privileged person allowed me to do. The one who had to apply for two scholarships just to go to university and still work to afford rent wasn’t out there fighting neo-Nazis, but they had far more merit than those of us who were.

Your view of politics is purely social-democratic—pure social liberalism. You have no class consciousness, you don’t understand the roots of systemic problems, and you don’t even bother to be self-aware about them. Your discourse comes from a place of privilege, and honestly, it’s embarrassing.

Isn’t that funny that Snape stans are obsessed w James as much as Snape himself was obsessed with him