Try to ignore a lot of the outright haters here who have nothing of critical value to add. We will dunk on each other mercilessly for a mistake in theory. Communist or liberal; the criticism never ends. That is a good thing, in my opinion. It prevents complacency and backwardness.
We also have a tendency to get people who are far, far less open-minded than you to spout insults and propaganda at us; believing we are the most evil thing on the entire fediverse. Hexbear.net is a great place on Lemmy to get a better understanding of the culture.
Lemmygrad is where the theory-heads and devout MLs tend to go, all though all is welcome.
It makes a lot more sense now that I know what is going on on other instances. I have seen some people blocking them simply because of that aha. I often don't mind seeing content from instances like these but I found out they can be more hostile towards people who don't know much about it and make a random comment about it aha
Indeed. I find that a lot of us tend to have hostility towards outsiders. Even myself am capable of it at times. A lot of people/outsiders aren't curious or interested in the content like you and rather think they're sticking it to the "evil tankies" or leaving behind some smug comment about western propaganda they consumed. It's genuinely a 9 times out of 10 thing.
As cfgaussian said. Do stick around and learn about us. Even if you don't agree with us or have a distaste with us, you'll find yourself with a litany of new material to learn and educate yourself on outside of political theory. Simply just other perspectives, the diverse community we have here and our collective struggle.
Welcome, we sometimes get a touch defensive because folks often come in with outright hostile intentions and no desire to learn. However, most of us were probably in the same shoes as you at some point. I am not an admin here but I think I can say you would be welcome as long as you have an open-mind. We don't require people all be MLs (Marxist-Leninist, probably the most common branch of communism most of us subscribe to) necessarily.
I remember back in my social-democrat days coming across some online communist communities that I was initially dismissive of, because of all the anti-communist indoctrination I had been subjugated to all my life. A few conversations lead to reading a few books, lead to where I am now.
A nice thing is we can often criticize each other without becoming instantly defensive, because we generally realise we are all in varying degrees of learning/studying still.
Try to ignore a lot of the outright haters here who have nothing of critical value to add. We will dunk on each other mercilessly for a mistake in theory. Communist or liberal; the criticism never ends. That is a good thing, in my opinion. It prevents complacency and backwardness.
We also have a tendency to get people who are far, far less open-minded than you to spout insults and propaganda at us; believing we are the most evil thing on the entire fediverse. Hexbear.net is a great place on Lemmy to get a better understanding of the culture.
Lemmygrad is where the theory-heads and devout MLs tend to go, all though all is welcome.
It makes a lot more sense now that I know what is going on on other instances. I have seen some people blocking them simply because of that aha. I often don't mind seeing content from instances like these but I found out they can be more hostile towards people who don't know much about it and make a random comment about it aha
Thanks for enlightening me, appreciate it!
Indeed. I find that a lot of us tend to have hostility towards outsiders. Even myself am capable of it at times. A lot of people/outsiders aren't curious or interested in the content like you and rather think they're sticking it to the "evil tankies" or leaving behind some smug comment about western propaganda they consumed. It's genuinely a 9 times out of 10 thing.
As cfgaussian said. Do stick around and learn about us. Even if you don't agree with us or have a distaste with us, you'll find yourself with a litany of new material to learn and educate yourself on outside of political theory. Simply just other perspectives, the diverse community we have here and our collective struggle.
Thanks for being kind, have a nice day.
Welcome, we sometimes get a touch defensive because folks often come in with outright hostile intentions and no desire to learn. However, most of us were probably in the same shoes as you at some point. I am not an admin here but I think I can say you would be welcome as long as you have an open-mind. We don't require people all be MLs (Marxist-Leninist, probably the most common branch of communism most of us subscribe to) necessarily.
I remember back in my social-democrat days coming across some online communist communities that I was initially dismissive of, because of all the anti-communist indoctrination I had been subjugated to all my life. A few conversations lead to reading a few books, lead to where I am now.
A nice thing is we can often criticize each other without becoming instantly defensive, because we generally realise we are all in varying degrees of learning/studying still.