I fully sympathize with the experience of random injustice by online mods but ultimately, I don’t think you should care much about this sort of thing. Reddit isn’t just partly cancer, it’s fully cancer and the reasons for that also underlie the places where you think the correct ideas are supported.
I don’t understand what is going on.
What’s going on is that either you or the mods or both live in an extremely individualistic, collapsing, decaying society and while you understandably have this romantic notion that people who should agree with you in theory will also act in a collective-like, movement-like manner, nothing like that should really be expected. You want to belong to the actual movement and to a community but the reality is that you are alone among alone individuals that end up forming thematically and aesthetically consistent online echo chambers, not actual communities or movements. In democratically organized communities and movements that haven’t been eroded by the state, organized crime etc, authoritarian behavior isn’t tolerated very easily and you have homies that will back you. There are real class based bonds, not just nitpicky af ideological agreements that don’t even last when someone changes their minds even 1%, even if they’re actually right.
Not being a dick here, I just think that having romantic expectations from alienated online spaces on capitalist-run sites like reddit or even elsewhere is only going to lead to disappointment sooner or later and unless you adapt your expectations to reality, you will end up believing it was the actual movement or a true representation of the movement that disappointed you and not a horrible online roleplaying party.
No! You have to know what the enemy is saying if you want to fight them effectively! I find it deeply disturbing that this mod who banned me considers it a crime merely to have a couple of these reactionary subs in the list of subs i follow, despite my extensive comment history showing that i neither frequent nor agree with them. It bodes very poorly for our movement if it has become taboo to even make an effort to keep up to date with what people outside of our own ideological box are saying.
lol dude I agree but it’s already been a taboo for decades, did you just notice the pro-censorship bias? Chomsky has been getting shit over his pro-freedom of speech stance for decades and yeah it can be a little too idealistic but it’s a trashy view that bourgeois states are really in need of protection from nazism or the spread of hate speech when both those huge categories are inherently bourgeois in nature and the reasons for their spread have nothing to do with just saying stupid shit freely but with the current bourgeois mode of production and the relations it creates. Censorship makes some sense in some cases for actual revolutionary states when they are embattled by the global bourgeoisie or when you’re dealing with legit agent provocateurs and cointelpro type bs. The problem though is…
And even if i WAS active in those subs, there could still be legitimate reasons for doing so, e.g. trying to convert some of the users there away from their nazbol ways and to explain that what they are saying is in contradiction with Marxism-Leninism! It wouldn’t work for the diehard mods but it might save a few of the users from falling down the rabbithole. Eventually i’d get banned but i’d still have done something worthwhile.
That you are also infected by this notion. First of all, the petite bourgeoisie aka the lower middle class is a natural supporter of fascism due to their class positioning. They don’t end up becoming neonazis and altrighters by accident or due to bad ideas and being misinformed and other painfully radlib bougie notions, they are led there because that’s their reactionary class interest. So not only is it very hard to change their minds with simple facts and logic and ideas, but even if you manage to do that, what are you going to accomplish? Bring the small time cornershop bosses into the worker’s movement to corrupt it with their petite bourgeois influence?
I’d say that you have good intentions and you want to do worthwhile things but unless you focus on real organizing in your place of employment or in any other real and human based working class organization you’ll waste your energy, your patience, your empathy and will only end up becoming disappointed and disillusioned very soon. Think about it as a marxist and refocus bro.
I get you, it’s best to use online spaces for networking and practicing debating skills, gaining knowledge, getting new useful ideas etc but not as the sole space in which to exist and that only when others allow it. No reason for defeatism. If already existing spaces aren’t welcoming, new ones can be made without having to ask some censorial clique for permission or something.