What are some of your guys’ biggest red flags when it comes to talking to people about politics? (they don’t really know what they’re talking about) Personally one of mine is when people call the USSR Russia
What are some of your guys’ biggest red flags when it comes to talking to people about politics? (they don’t really know what they’re talking about) Personally one of mine is when people call the USSR Russia
Racism or chauvinism toward people in the global south.
I can talk with a person who has misconceptions about socialist states due to anti-communist indoctrination. I can’t do much to change someone’s mind who just views non-Europeans as subhuman.
And the same goes for people who look at the poor as “lesser than” and blame their situation on “their own failures”.
Disagreeing on politics, economics or history is one thing. A lot of people are ignorant, uneducated or miseducated. That’s just something we have to learn to deal with. But when it enters the territory of dehumanization that’s when it crosses a line.
This is the straw that broke my liberalism. When the SMO started and all of reddit was chanting “death to orks” I realized that the difference between the western “rules based order” and nazism was cosmetic.
Pro-lqbtq+ zionist liberals do this against the Palestinians all the time whenever they see a queer leftist who advocates for the emancipation of Palestine. They almost always weaponize Islamophobia to make their argument. Little do they realize is that Israel has murdered way more queer people in Palestine Hamas could have ever imagined.
Same, 100% agree 👍🏼
It is the point where changing the material conditions to sublimate the “fasciopathy” becomes insurmountable by the individual.