• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    I remember a comment from another post about how the right makes friends with people who changed their mind, whereas the left berates them for not changing it sooner. They had a point, but this is taking it to another (insane) level, and is messed up on so many levels.

    Just to let everyone know, this is not actual socialism. This is someone trying to coopt socialism to espouse physical and mental torture and mutilation of people who have, yes, committed harm, but mostly because of normal human psychology and the bad luck to be born in a bubble. You may think you are so clever and would see the flaws in the narrative if you were in their situation - I have been guilty of thinking like this myself - but the truth is, many (maybe even most) people wouldn’t, because many people don’t. And that’s not their fault that their mind and circumstances are the way they are.

    I would ordinarily say that empathy works better at convincing real people and thus enacting real change than insulting people, but this goes so far beyond that it makes it seem that you don’t actually want to change people’s minds - you’d rather be right and in a small group of right people in a broken world.

    I would love for my interpretation to be wrong - if it is, please tell me.