They don't. They didn't like being the butt of the joke and so they spun up some bullshit in the voice they felt had the best chance of working.

You can tell because leftists aren't offended by vanilla leftism.

it literally made me enraged to see someone twist feminist ideas to make an asinine point defending the status quo. I'm not sure what the answer to your question is, but I think it's something like - the person may only be left-leaning insofar as it affects their own rights, being a person from marginalized groups, but is not left-leaning to the point of opposing other forms of exploitation even when they are part of their own paycheck

Maybe they shouldn’t. This is such an annoying comment. GP wasn’t uncalm. By saying such a flippant statement, it seems to me that you’re denegrating GP and saying that his ideas aren’t worth talking about.

As if being calm is some ideal to always maintain anyway.

This is a pretty patronizing comment.

Yeah you're right I'm sorry it was flippant and inappropriate.

Slighlty OT for this forum, but the "left" isn't monolithic either. Especially on twitter, there's a lot of left-leaning people who despise the "dirtbag left" that user refers to.

It's been a while since their ideology has become a collection of mutually incompatible senseless ideas. As you say, a caricature.

You write “their” as if one specific ideology was a problem. Watch “conservatives” tie themselves into knots to support a most certainly un-conservative demagogue. It’s just as bad as “leftists” who have forgotten about freedom. Radicalisation is a problem, and it is generalised.