Don't make your life about hating them. If you can, don't hate them at all. It doesn't really make you better than them if you do.
Just realise that they, like you, have good intentions but have been misled on what would cause a good outcome. Realise that 90% of the time they haven't really thought through the mantras they are chanting and can't be specific when they are asked what the problem is or how their solution helps.
But yeah this isn't a fun little club or identity. You are welcome (and often encouraged) to disagree with us on some things because we're not a monolith and we don't issue ideological purity tests to reject people who don't toe the line. Just believe what you believe, think what you think, argue what you argue, and extend us the courtesy to do the same.
Don't make your life about hating them. If you can, don't hate them at all. It doesn't really make you better than them if you do.
Ends up making it tougher for you to help inform regular people too. Average joes and janes don't like zealots and they'll just roll their eyes and tune you out.
More of an issue I think is that hate leads to othering - you know, calling communists garbage, trash, rats, and all sorts of other "lovely" phrases. At the end of the day you have to recognize they're still people like you, with souls, hopes, goals, fears, desires, favorite foods, and everything else that we also experience since we're all people. If I was saying this in oldKIA2 that'd get some eye-rolls, sure, but bad things tend to start happening when people start getting dehumanized, and what better example of that is there than all the numerous failed socialist utopias?
... you really are stupid aren’t you? One side commits all the violence and when we take a stand we get blamed. But sure I’ll stick to standing up against evil while you do nothing.
Don't make your life about hating them. If you can, don't hate them at all. It doesn't really make you better than them if you do.
Just realise that they, like you, have good intentions but have been misled on what would cause a good outcome. Realise that 90% of the time they haven't really thought through the mantras they are chanting and can't be specific when they are asked what the problem is or how their solution helps.
But yeah this isn't a fun little club or identity. You are welcome (and often encouraged) to disagree with us on some things because we're not a monolith and we don't issue ideological purity tests to reject people who don't toe the line. Just believe what you believe, think what you think, argue what you argue, and extend us the courtesy to do the same.
Ends up making it tougher for you to help inform regular people too. Average joes and janes don't like zealots and they'll just roll their eyes and tune you out.
More of an issue I think is that hate leads to othering - you know, calling communists garbage, trash, rats, and all sorts of other "lovely" phrases. At the end of the day you have to recognize they're still people like you, with souls, hopes, goals, fears, desires, favorite foods, and everything else that we also experience since we're all people. If I was saying this in oldKIA2 that'd get some eye-rolls, sure, but bad things tend to start happening when people start getting dehumanized, and what better example of that is there than all the numerous failed socialist utopias?
Keep that open hand of your all the way to the gallows whe the commies hang you. Bet you’ll feel superior as your dying.
You'll probably try throwing me off a helicopter for not hating enough well before if things even get to that point.
Please stick to your keyboard, thanks!
... you really are stupid aren’t you? One side commits all the violence and when we take a stand we get blamed. But sure I’ll stick to standing up against evil while you do nothing.