I’ve brainwashed my kids into little commies during the pandemic but now I’m worried that they’ll be ostracized when they get back to school.
I was an unabashed little commie for most of my childhood, especially in high school, and the ostracism wasn't too bad fwiw. It really just made me stick to my guns even harder, especially since I'm stubborn and I like being right about stuff and materialism ensured that I was pretty much always right about just about everything. It definitely didn't make me any more popular, but I was already a defacto outcast (over a decade ago, deep south, autistic nerd, huge dyk:flag-lesbian-pride:) so really what it did was move my weirdo friends left. To the point where I got a call out of the blue about a year ago from my group's token republican friend asking me in earnest to explain marxism lol.
Depending on their age, I have to imagine they won't be alone — I wasn't the only commie in my shitty southern high school even in the obama hope-and-change years, and I get the sense that these days kids are a lot more likely to be radical.
And I didn't have cool marxist parents or relatives to talk to either.
Yeah, I remember a high school acquaintance who was a commie. He had his own group of friends and seemed to be doing alright. Years after we graduated he helped convert me to socialism. So we’ll have to see I guess. It’s possible also that my worries for my kids are coming from my liberal family members who are looking for any excuse to toe the line of the bourgeoisie.
I was an unabashed little commie for most of my childhood, especially in high school, and the ostracism wasn't too bad fwiw. It really just made me stick to my guns even harder, especially since I'm stubborn and I like being right about stuff and materialism ensured that I was pretty much always right about just about everything. It definitely didn't make me any more popular, but I was already a defacto outcast (over a decade ago, deep south, autistic nerd, huge dyk:flag-lesbian-pride:) so really what it did was move my weirdo friends left. To the point where I got a call out of the blue about a year ago from my group's token republican friend asking me in earnest to explain marxism lol.
Depending on their age, I have to imagine they won't be alone — I wasn't the only commie in my shitty southern high school even in the obama hope-and-change years, and I get the sense that these days kids are a lot more likely to be radical.
And I didn't have cool marxist parents or relatives to talk to either.
Yeah, I remember a high school acquaintance who was a commie. He had his own group of friends and seemed to be doing alright. Years after we graduated he helped convert me to socialism. So we’ll have to see I guess. It’s possible also that my worries for my kids are coming from my liberal family members who are looking for any excuse to toe the line of the bourgeoisie.