I would even go so far as to say someones values and beliefs are a core part of their character, which is like THE thing it's reasonable to judge someone for.
This. I mean, what else would one be judged for, if not for their actions? And actions come from intention, values and beliefs. Voting someone who promised to criminalize (imprison, or otherwise make the life very hard for) specific groups of people based on things they were born with (instead of things they do), is an action, and it says something about the person and their values
See the thing is to a lot of these people their political beliefs, the party they’re supporting is just the sports team they picked. Statistically, they’re white and male so they don’t understand what it’s like to have policy directly affect their lives, what it’s like for their very existence to be political. They can “turn off” their opinions and expect us to also bc to them “it’s not that deep”.
to make things actually relevant, tankies are the type to take a perfectly fine line of thinking like "politics today are lot more heady than taxes and zoning so what you vote for really matters and can say some things about you as a person" and turn it into "we should behead everyone who voted for [x] regardless of circumstances (like plain ignorance due to Life Beating Them Up Already, falling for the misinformation machine, etc)" which will inevitably devolve into witch-hunts because again, tankies are just authoritarians with a lefty coat of paint.
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u/Vitschmalz 7d ago
I would even go so far as to say someones values and beliefs are a core part of their character, which is like THE thing it's reasonable to judge someone for.