I think the reason it's overused is because we are a minority and our opinions and positions go against the dominant ideology, so we feel a need to take a preemptively defensive position. It's like there is a fear of being ridiculed or called a shill or something.

I just think we can voice our support without prefacing it with "critical".

Also instead of saying extremely critical support to signal your disapproval of something done by an AES state, you could just voice your criticism or disapproval in a more direct fashion.

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[–] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

I think the reason it's overused is because we are a minority and our opinions and positions go against the dominant ideology, so we feel a need to take a preemptively defensive position. It's like there is a fear of being ridiculed or called a shill or something.

I can't speak for hexbear because I don't even see an overuse here, but in the left corners of Reddit they abuse the hell out of the phrase, seemingly because they just don't know what it means. I've lost count how many times I've had to explain in the deprogram sub that critical support doesn't mean having policy disagreements.