They were hemming and hawing over the morality of it to me and I was like "I feel like the psychic effects of working there would destroy you, no?" They have actually read some theory and I think consider themselves a leftist. Very funny stuff. Anyway, they didn't get the job for non-political reasons (insufficient microsoft outlook experience presumably). Sorry to use hexbear for gossip, my 'apolitical' friends wouldn't understand why this is funny and my leftist friends would think less of me.
Hot take: I think "reading theory" only really works if the person reading it is at least kind of sympathetic to the message. If they aren't they can usually pull some mental gymnastics to counter it. If you forced a diehard Lib to read 6000 pages of theory at gun point I think the result would just be a more articulate Lib, not a leftist.
Or they turn into an insufferable western ultra who streams on twitch all day shit talking every AES/Global South country. That's very much a risk.
Yeah was gonna say, I feel like when you bully Libs into reading theory they just read a bit of Marx and then become Vaushites.
I feel like I spent years "reading theory" before I really actually started to understand shit. Being sympathetic to the message is important but even then there is so much deprogramming from liberalism that needs to be done. So many given truths in western society that need to be challenged and unlearned. Reading some books is not going to change you world view if you don't even understand how your worldview is formed and what inputs feed it most directly.