• wozomo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It absolutely is hero worship any time someone is put on a pedestal and their flaws are ignored.

    That’s what the author of the linked article has explicitly done. He waves away the fact that she consistently defers to Democratic Party leadership—except for occasional, “token gestures of resistance to solidify the illusion” that she’s a hard-line leftist—and then holds her up as the face of progressivism.

    If that’s not hero worship idk what is.

    Edit: spelling

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      1 year ago

      You are treating “differs from leadership” as if it is indisputably a flaw, and assuming that a person having a flaw means we should discount their achievements. Those oversights are just as fallacious as the supposed hero-worship you are accusing others of doing.

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        1 year ago

        You’re misunderstanding (probably because I misspelled “defers” as “differs”).

        I’m saying she, as a proclaimed “progressive,” generally isn’t that progressive at all and generally defers to centrist, Democratic Party leaders: she does what they say rather than sticking to her ostensibly much more leftist guns.