I've had two people tell me they can't read Marx because they're afraid only a few sentences would leave them brainwashed. One countered my request to read Marx with "Well you wouldn't read Hitler, would you? What if you become a Nazi?" I mentioned it's possible to read something critically without suddenly subscribing to its contents and never got a response.
I've had a few family members who previously identified as politically unaffiliated start identifying themselves as fascists after I explained to them what fascism entails
They think I'm a liberal and that they can egg me into apologizing for my political stances or making a compromise with their more bigoted beliefs. They just want to feel like they've owned me and I guess liberals they interact with are more easily pushed into a corner.
This was my stance before reading the manifesto, thinking that I can't be converted to something just by reading a 'scary book'. I soon realized that it wasn't about totalitarianism and genocide.
I've had two people tell me they can't read Marx because they're afraid only a few sentences would leave them brainwashed. One countered my request to read Marx with "Well you wouldn't read Hitler, would you? What if you become a Nazi?" I mentioned it's possible to read something critically without suddenly subscribing to its contents and never got a response.
A few sentences of Marx certainly leaves me tired and in need of a snack
If reading Hitler makes you a Nazi, you were already a Nazi.
I've had a few family members who previously identified as politically unaffiliated start identifying themselves as fascists after I explained to them what fascism entails
The words allowed them to describe their existing beliefs
Yeah, they've tried a few times to blame me for making them into fascists, but I've realized how nonsense that is.
Hwut? That’s crazy
They think I'm a liberal and that they can egg me into apologizing for my political stances or making a compromise with their more bigoted beliefs. They just want to feel like they've owned me and I guess liberals they interact with are more easily pushed into a corner.
This was my stance before reading the manifesto, thinking that I can't be converted to something just by reading a 'scary book'. I soon realized that it wasn't about totalitarianism and genocide.