I hate the ‘You just think America is bad, so you can’t possible see how [insert America’s enemies here] could be bad, too!’ response you can get from pretty much everyone. It’s not a belief they had previously scrutinized but one they usually come up with in the moment, literal confabulation because you’ve raised too many points about the true evils of imperialism.
And I’m talking really hate it, bros. You will receive this response if you’re being a glib asshole making hot memes, or if you’ve delivered a painful dissertation on your extremely niche area of special interest in which they’ve never even read a wiki article on. It is, from the school of thought that defaults to Harry Potter and Star Wars to understand the world, a tacit attempt to pass their refusal to engage as an enlightened wisdom, as them truly understanding the greys of the world and yourself, simply a stooge for having read more than a CNN article about the topic.
It’s probably my biggest challenge in educating potential comrades because it’s a cognitive hurdle for me. I’m already fighting against my brain shutting down from rage when they bring up this halfhearted debate pervert logic, how am I meant to engineer the conversation back to somewhere productive? Nine times out of ten I can’t.
It’s probably my biggest challenge in educating potential comrades because it’s a cognitive hurdle for me. I’m already fighting against my brain shutting down from rage when they bring up this halfhearted debate pervert logic, how am I meant to engineer the conversation back to somewhere productive? Nine times out of ten I can’t.
This makes it sooooo hard to organize the left in America.
I go with some variation of “both sides having done ‘bad things’ doesn’t stop you from choosing the correct side when you’re watching a movie and it shouldn’t stop you from choosing the correct side in real life.”
I hate the ‘You just think America is bad, so you can’t possible see how [insert America’s enemies here] could be bad, too!’ response you can get from pretty much everyone. It’s not a belief they had previously scrutinized but one they usually come up with in the moment, literal confabulation because you’ve raised too many points about the true evils of imperialism.
And I’m talking really hate it, bros. You will receive this response if you’re being a glib asshole making hot memes, or if you’ve delivered a painful dissertation on your extremely niche area of special interest in which they’ve never even read a wiki article on. It is, from the school of thought that defaults to Harry Potter and Star Wars to understand the world, a tacit attempt to pass their refusal to engage as an enlightened wisdom, as them truly understanding the greys of the world and yourself, simply a stooge for having read more than a CNN article about the topic.
It’s probably my biggest challenge in educating potential comrades because it’s a cognitive hurdle for me. I’m already fighting against my brain shutting down from rage when they bring up this halfhearted debate pervert logic, how am I meant to engineer the conversation back to somewhere productive? Nine times out of ten I can’t.
Usually whatever enemy america has that can be called bad is bad as direct result of amerixan action in the region
And sometimes they’re simply inspired by America’s actions, like Nazi Germany
This makes it sooooo hard to organize the left in America.
I go with some variation of “both sides having done ‘bad things’ doesn’t stop you from choosing the correct side when you’re watching a movie and it shouldn’t stop you from choosing the correct side in real life.”