• Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Many times they already harbored these thoughts or were raised in an environment that encouraged it. He's from the Southern Tier and that region of New York is a white supremacist hotbed. It's no wonder he picked Buffalo. A much more progressive city with a large black population.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      There's a good quote by David Harvey where he talks about how teaching Marxist concepts to trust fund grad students is really arduous, but teaching prison inmates is much easier because they're already familiar with the ideas. Mao said the same thing about university grads and peasants.

      So I guess it must work the same with reactionaries. They already had the thoughts in their head before learning how express them.

      • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        There’s a good quote by David Harvey where he talks about how teaching Marxist concepts to trust fund grad students is really arduous, but teaching prison inmates is much easier because they’re already familiar with the ideas.

        I think you're talking about Chris Hedges, not David harvey. But perhaps they've made the same point.