Reply #353: I believe there are "leftists" who don't know they're singing rightwing

[Sparkly]

tunes. They've gone full-circle, and they give the left a bad name.
Today, for example:
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7439570

The far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) provoked outrage on Friday by walking out of a minute's silence for Nazi victims and referring to Allied strikes on the German city of Dresden in 1945 as a "bombing holocaust."

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"The NPD is the tip of the iceberg," he said. "The problem is that in the east the political discourse is very right-wing oriented. There are many people who have come to see the Germans as the victims and that is partly a legacy of the (former East German government) GDR."

It's my unpopular opinion that some who call themselves "leftists" in America (on DU) today cite rightwing websites and spew the same sort of rightwing dogma as this, defending murderers, claiming that people like Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, and David Koresh are victims and in the false name of leftist pacifism contend that defending the defenseless in the face of systemic murder is the real "war crime."

In my unpopular opinion, they are leftists in name only, and have much more in common with the right than the left.

In my unpopular opinion such people measure 'extreme lefism' as 'extreme caring' about unnecessary bloodshed, as if everyone else just cared less. It's a shallow view that seeks validation from obscure websites (that lack credibility only because they're so TRUE nobody will dare confirm how TRUE they are or they might get in TROUBLE!), often overlapping the rightwing at the back of the left/right circle.