If you don't see the difference between saying "I'm not going to buy this book, and I would suggest you think about not buying it either" and "I don't like this person so I'm going to stop YOU from being able to buy his book, whether you like it or not!" then you have failed at understanding the most basic principles of western civilization, and you are a fascist.
You're also a hypocrite, knowing full well that you are taking advantage of our principles to speak freely on this site, whereas if we were on a site that follows your rules we would be banned. And yet you want to suggest that our position is the evil one.
Answering this for the benefit of other readers, since again I don't think you're willing to actually examine your beliefs in good faith.
Most people who dislike a certain product on the left simply say "I'm not going to buy this book, and I would suggest you think about not buying it either".
And if a boycott actually gets a dev to go bankrupt, it's also likely other people will have a hard time getting the dev's product. De-platforming and boycotting just aren't that different in their effect, even if you try to say they have different mindsets.
I don't think your position is "evil", just that it's wrong; created by a series of misconceptions, willful ignorance (which you perfectly demonstrated with your little rant about the left) and copious amounts of hidden fear. I don't judge anyone from things that are not actions.
I'm not a hypocrite by asking you to live up to your standards, I'm just weaponizing your compass. The idea that free speech is important, btw, is also one I subscribe to. And in other fora there are many discussions about historical accuracy, political themes vs propaganda etc. They just do that in a more mature way.
Just to give people an example of misinformation:
- "the goal [of Critical Theory applied to history] is from the start to try to claim that western culture was evil": false. Critical theory does not talk about morals, it attempts to delineate power structures. It can also be used to deconstruct things other cultures did, like the Manchurian domination of Han Chinese people.
- "they never care about any of the atrocities of any other culture" this is because you focus on CT in the west, where... western culture is the dominant one.
- "nor do they seem to demand that any other culture be multicultural or else it is evil" Of course, since its goal is not to call people evil. However, the people who attack social power structures in the west tend to oppose them in other countries too (for example, people who are opposed to Asian people's discrimination in the US also tend to oppose racism against foreigners in Japan).
- "they try to claim that somehow culture and race are tied together" Because they are commonly associated in popular thought. It has nothing to do with biology.
- "try to claim that people of a given ethnic group have no claim at a "genuine culture" because there "were always people of color" in that society" In 3 years of hanging out in leftist spaces I've never heard that argument ONCE. What I HAVE heard is that white people in Ireland, France, Italy, Russia, Serbia as well as French immigrants to the US, white Americans of Irish and Italian descent all have pretty different cultural backgrounds, so the attempt by some far right groups to talk about "white culture" (or, when they're smarter, "western civilization", which means nothing and everything because it's so nebulous) is based on misrepresenting history.
So, if anything, it's right wing activist that I've seen lying/cherrypicking about history more often than not.
- "They find the weirdest cases and the rarest exceptions, which they then try to twist into claiming was the medieval norm" Again, wild unsubstantiated claim.
- "what you didn't have was a blended globalist progressive society in the style of 2022 leftism. Which is what they always want to turn settings into, to suggest the end of history, year zero, etc." same as above. Also, to hear someone who (I presume) thinks Capitalism is the best system we have talk about "the end of history" as if it was a left wing concept is hilarious.