Instead we alienate allies because they say “dumb” when someone is acting dumb.
I don’t think that happened. I’m very skeptical of the idea that willfully letting reactionary thought slide because you’re preemptively afraid of “losing people” is ever a solid strategy. Truth is truth. Throwing around words like “dumb” is ableist and lazy in any context. Someone (or their argument) being “dumb” is never the root problem. Uninformed, out of touch, willfully ignorant, false consciousness, motivated by racism, motivated by self or class interest, these are the real roots of reactionary thought like in the OP.
People are capable of learning to take good faith crit from comrades and learn something without throwing a tantrum about it.
The word dumb doesn’t hurt my feelings because I have an inflated ego. However I am extremely aware of how close it is to “removed”(ya know, the r-word) and when that shit comes out of someone’s mouth all I’m thinking about is my 30-06. Listen to people when they tell you that you have hurt them. Some of us won’t have the manners to let you know.
i don’t know why you chose to cry in my inbox when i just told you crying about this particular issue is embarrassing and pathetic. i don’t care. you don’t matter.
Please read Mao’s “On The Correct Handling Of Contradictions” until you understand the difference between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions and how a movement can grapple with both at the same time
“It takes two to tango”
Educating and uplifting potential allies is valuable work. Making sure everyone is more or less on the same page amplifies your message and raises your signal to noise ratio.
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I don’t think that happened. I’m very skeptical of the idea that willfully letting reactionary thought slide because you’re preemptively afraid of “losing people” is ever a solid strategy. Truth is truth. Throwing around words like “dumb” is ableist and lazy in any context. Someone (or their argument) being “dumb” is never the root problem. Uninformed, out of touch, willfully ignorant, false consciousness, motivated by racism, motivated by self or class interest, these are the real roots of reactionary thought like in the OP.
People are capable of learning to take good faith crit from comrades and learn something without throwing a tantrum about it.
i agree with your sentiment but using “blinded” as an alternative to ableist terminology is a bit jarring.
You’re right. In my defense it was 2 am for me at the time.
I fixed it and IMO my argument is much better now. Thank you.
so is fucking crying about it
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The word dumb doesn’t hurt my feelings because I have an inflated ego. However I am extremely aware of how close it is to “removed”(ya know, the r-word) and when that shit comes out of someone’s mouth all I’m thinking about is my 30-06. Listen to people when they tell you that you have hurt them. Some of us won’t have the manners to let you know.
i don’t know why you chose to cry in my inbox when i just told you crying about this particular issue is embarrassing and pathetic. i don’t care. you don’t matter.
Please read Mao’s “On The Correct Handling Of Contradictions” until you understand the difference between antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions and how a movement can grapple with both at the same time
“It takes two to tango” Educating and uplifting potential allies is valuable work. Making sure everyone is more or less on the same page amplifies your message and raises your signal to noise ratio.