Has anyone else noticed how communists, it seems are mostly men, and then there is also a disproportionately high amount of trans-fems? Does anyone have any theories why? How many of you are cis-women and I haven’t noticed?

  • @Munrock
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    151 year ago

    I just assumed this place has a lower-than-average number of Westerners (but probably still a majority because of the site’s Lingua Franca) just because a massive number of Westerners who identify as leftists see the positive depictions of Stalin and the Kims, and the disdain for the US Democratic party, and then they flee.

    • SovereignState
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      171 year ago

      Just want to say that I greatly appreciate our comrades from outside the U.S. who offer perspectives Amerikans like me are very unlikely to see anywhere else. It is eye opening.

      • @cfgaussian
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        81 year ago

        I especially appreciate comrades from outside the collective West since they help us break out of the Eurocentrism that infects virtually all anglophone spaces online.

    • KiG V2
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      151 year ago

      “Lower than average” is definitely what I see, as a Murikkkan. It was honestly what sold me to Marxism-Leninism, seeing its adherents (online but especially IRL) being so overwhelmingly non-Westerners with an actual diversity of race and nationality and economic position etc. I realized that Breadtube-esque Western “Leftism” was the wrong place to be when I realized how many of those mfers were the same rich white American hipsters I had been trying to escape politically my whole life (btw no hate if that applies to the past of anybody reading this, I’m not that far from that myself lol).

    • lemmygrabber
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      1 year ago

      Even among westerners I think we have more non-Americans than other websites

      • @redtea
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        81 year ago

        I wonder how many of the US/westerners on other websites are ‘real’ people (i.e. bots / feds / one user with multiple accounts) and how much that distorts the picture. (It may still be overwhelmingly US-based, but would it be too the same extent?)