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For god's sake, be polite! (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by JTurtle@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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if you'll pardon me complaining about this publicly: some of the meanest mfs i've met online are internet-poisoned communists. If i weren't already a marxist-leninist, i would have some very unsavory ideas about what communists are like.

Lemmygrad and Hexbear are very nice places, thank you comrades ^_^ … but elsewhere, even IRL, i've met incredibly rude people calling themselves communists and i need to stress this: if you want people on our side, you need to give good impressions of what we're like. Don't be hostile or dismissive or just violently anti-social. If you have to explain something for the millionth time to yet another liberal or anarchist… do it [insert Sankara quote], or at least find a nice way of saying you don't want to. Save your offensive capabilities for people who deserve it. And please, PLEASE, go outside occasionally. IRL interaction is healthy, and will quickly kill any terminally online behaviours you might have. Maybe join an org while you're at it ;)

i'll stop stating the obvious now. Have a great day, comrades.

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[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago (19 children)

I just recently saw a couple of posts on reddit that blew my mind with how condescending and downright hostile some folks were to someone asking an honest question on the fucking communism101 sub. Basically the person asking a question about if being a lawyer would be a good profession to get into to assist people and they were basically told that they just wanted to live a cushy life and were self serving, unethical, and basically gave the impression that whatever good they wanted to do was just liberal fantasy. I felt so bad for OP especially since it was a communism for beginners sub. There was a similar post on the regular r/communism where OP got their ass chewed out too. I can see getting annoyed with those types of questions but good lord did they leave a bad taste in my mouth.

One person did post a pretty interesting article that has made me shift my perspective a bit but even in that they called social workers pathetic and like, how is that constructive at all?

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you havea link to the article?

These mfs need to read What is to be done? I'm sure it's in there. About how we basically need people in all professions. It's partly why I advocate for people getting any education and not worrying too much about whether a profession is pure enough (maybe don't join the police or military or work for an arms dealer).

It'd be great if we could all study Marxism and get employed at Revolution Inc but it's not an option. So in the meantime, we need to learn to think, to develop skills and learn how the world works, to be well placed for when things start to change, and to be doing whatever little good we can in our day-to-day lives. It doesn't hurt to get organised, either.

[–] ratboy@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Here is the article

I haven't read the whole thing but it sure did make me wanna cry and quit my job lol

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