Out of the loop @lemmy.world ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @midwest.social 1y ago

Went on All today and saw many posts celebrating Sen. Feindtein's recent passing. Why is she so hated on the left?

I'm not from California, so I don't know much about her; but this genuinely surprised me, especially how vicious and vitriolic the comments were. What's going on there?

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She's not. She's hated by the Far Left, because she wasn't far left enough. Don't rely on Lemmy to give you a balanced, accurate picture of the political landscape.
- our Overton window has gotten shoved so far right that anything vaguely to the left of center is viewed as “far left” (conservatives are even happy to shove center-right in with “far left”)
- Is that what Tucker Carlson said was the reason?
  
  I don't know, I don't listen to Tucker Carlson. Maybe you should go to his house and start screaming "down with the bourgeoisies!" until you start realizing you're not relevant.
  
  Lmao what?
  
  You made an idiot statement, I'm sorry for assuming you got it from Tucker and co.
  
  Nobody on the left was complaining that she's not far left. Everyone pissed at her was because she refused to retire despite being a husk of what she once was
- Okay, but why? is the question more than who?
  
  I didn't want to use a charged term like "far left" originally, but given that that's the segment celebrating today, what's the reason?
  
  I mean, it's pretty clear to me from reading the negative comments in the posts commemorating her death that they took issue with the fact that she wasn't 100% progressive in all respects, that she believed in working with conservative politicians to get things done via compromise, and that she didn't think corporate suits and cops were all evil. In other words, she was a moderate Democrat.
  
  So, from what I can tell, that's the why, but the who really does matter, because you were specifically asking about the comments you're seeing here on Lemmy, and Lemmy is disproportionately representative of Far Left Anarcho-Communists (i.e. whack jobs with a lot of passion, but little intelligence). You wouldn't see these kinds of criticisms of Feinstein in a more balanced political forum as they'd get drowned out by the sensible people.
  
  Edit: Here's a good article detailing her complicated relationship with the gay community, which also sheds some light on why she wasn't the perfect liberal.
  
  I did read that article; I tried to google this before posting.
- Yeah, lemmy is very biased.
  
  So is reality. Wonder why certain people want to keep others from voting.

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