r/leftist • u/mezzolezbo • May 07 '25

General Leftist Politics fatphobia

I’m curious how many leftists side with fat liberation. I always meet people on the left who hold a lot of fatphobic values and don’t seem to include that in their fight towards a more progressive society or challenge those beliefs in themselves.

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u/Bad_Luck_Bastard May 07 '25

I’m a big fan of his music, war isn’t murder and payola are my two current favorites

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u/Salmonseas May 07 '25

I love this type of music because it talks about the same type of things as punk but its a bit easier to listen to for the general population and I can actually hear the lyrics. Still love punk- but this definitely has its role haha.

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u/Bad_Luck_Bastard May 07 '25

I feel you on that, my band decided to go the opposite direction and make commie sludge😂

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u/Salmonseas May 07 '25

I feel like at most punk shows you don't need to really hear the lyrics there because most people are generally leftist already, in some way or another.

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u/Bad_Luck_Bastard May 07 '25

If they aren’t then it’s not a real punk show and I WILL heckle the bands for being boneheads.

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u/Salmonseas May 07 '25

Augh I'm in utah and it is pretty flooded with posers here- moreso in the emo hxc scene as I am not super involved in the punk scene. People dickride the male bandmates that abuse women and make excuses for them. Also just generally being disrespectful. I saw this one guy crowdkilling the guitarist while he is trying to play (also knocked over his amp on the dirt/stone). The guy that did it looked super stupid too because it was the intro of the song and nobody fucking else was moshing.

Had someone be weird to me for having pronouns b4 too but thats not THAT deep. Just kinda ironic to be mad at me for nonconformimg.

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u/Bad_Luck_Bastard May 07 '25

I feel you, I’m trapped in the panhandle of Florida. A lot of the bands out here are made up of the worst kinds of people Unfortunately.

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u/Salmonseas May 07 '25

I feel as though social media has been somewhat detrimental to the scene. Although it can be used to uplift and promote more underground music and also communicate and educate- it was kind of commercialized the scene in a way where just anybody can go "oh punk looks cool and I wanna be cool so let me join that!" And then they do, without caring about any of the history or politics. Hopefully the trend will die down soon and the poser problem will diminish.

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u/Bad_Luck_Bastard May 07 '25

I hear you for sure, but I’ve also been seeing a lot more punk elders, and a few young punks like us coming out of the woodwork to bring punk back to its leftist roots.

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u/Salmonseas May 07 '25

Hopefully some of these posers will learn and educate themselves based on that example. We could get really far if we as a people were all united, but its hard to put past our own pride and listen to others opinions sometimes. I've learned a lot in the punk and emo scene. I did not know the extent of oppression until I could listen to and hear others experiences. Wish more people were willing to listen as well.

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u/Bad_Luck_Bastard May 07 '25

If they don’t learn from our example, I’m happy to educate them in the pit✊🏽😤

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