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F!S Anon Meme (the ??th)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with recaptchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

(Today's post is below.)

Comments

Re: Fandom and Politics

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom as a whole doesn't feel left-leaning at all to me. It feels moderate, sometimes with a right-wing leaning. And actually, I often feel like F!S as a community is actually shockingly conservative.

But I'm European, so my definitions of the political left and right are definitely not the US definitions of left and right. In my country, the liberals are a right wing party, because we define liberal as 'believing in a free-market economy'. So the fact that your left is called 'liberal' doesn't even make sense to me.

Re: Fandom and Politics

[(Anonymous)]

the dominant political left in the us is probably equivalent to what'd be considered moderate in most european countries

actually liberal american liberals are clustered in tiny groups on the fringes of that and nobody takes them at all seriously

Re: Fandom and Politics

[(Anonymous)]

I rather like your clarification of non-US definitions of liberal. It was more coherent and more genuinely informative than one of thoe posts preceding yours (specifially http://fandomsecrets.dreamwidth.org/812366.html?thread=657069902#cmt657069902). :-)

Re: Fandom and Politics

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, yeah, it's one of those things that causes a lot of misunderstandings on the internet, I think. From what I gather, 'liberal' in the US means socially liberal/progressive whereas in most of Europe it means economically liberal, which is a totally different thing! And wow, that above comment is pretty ignorant and insulting, there's no need for that.