also using gangs to do your bidding as a leader is inherently anti-communist.
The collectivos predate the Bolivarian Revolution and are often to the left of the government on various issues. Calling them “gangs” is literally just accepting the racist framing of the western media.
I don’t see how this framing could make them look “based” then, it just looks insanely racist, but oh well, I’m not white enough to believe this could be spun as anything good or “making them look based”.
When most people who are actually leftists see “leftist bike gang hunts Trump supporters” coming from a racist liberal rag their first reaction is “lmao based, they must be cool” not “they are gangs doing the bidding of the ‘evil dictator’”.
The title says “Liberal newspaper”, that’s quite enough information to me to assume that the use of the word “gang” here is racist slander.
However, I acknowledge that not everyone has a lot of experience reading this kind of media critically from the perspective I’m discussing, so I’m accepting that you were mistaken and weren’t being racist. /genuine
Edit: to reply to your edit:
Like yeah I made a mistake, sorry about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Props for owning up to it. In the future, I find it helpful to refrain from speaking on topics you don’t really know much about until you’re willing to stand on that initial claim. Being able to admit fault is already a great step, but to go further it helps to reduce the number of times that that’s even called for.
The collectivos predate the Bolivarian Revolution and are often to the left of the government on various issues. Calling them “gangs” is literally just accepting the racist framing of the western media.
I don’t see how this framing could make them look “based” then, it just looks insanely racist, but oh well, I’m not white enough to believe this could be spun as anything good or “making them look based”.
When most people who are actually leftists see “leftist bike gang hunts Trump supporters” coming from a racist liberal rag their first reaction is “lmao based, they must be cool” not “they are gangs doing the bidding of the ‘evil dictator’”.
Personally I’d just get mad at the racism but maybe I’m not white enough to understand this.
2 hours ago you were referring to them NEGATIVELY as gangs completely without irony.
Because I didn’t do my research before then… Like yeah I made a mistake, sorry about that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The title says “Liberal newspaper”, that’s quite enough information to me to assume that the use of the word “gang” here is racist slander.
However, I acknowledge that not everyone has a lot of experience reading this kind of media critically from the perspective I’m discussing, so I’m accepting that you were mistaken and weren’t being racist. /genuine
Edit: to reply to your edit:
Fair enough!
Props for owning up to it. In the future, I find it helpful to refrain from speaking on topics you don’t really know much about until you’re willing to stand on that initial claim. Being able to admit fault is already a great step, but to go further it helps to reduce the number of times that that’s even called for.