and i’m not saying they might not have...
but we have this friend who was upset about my recent instagram stream that was pro communism and that i was ignorant because his family only got one bag of rice for his big family and they weren’t able to get a new house without dirt floors and a leaking roof... so they fled on a raft that took 3 days.
so without saying “lmao sounds like made up bullshit” how do i say, “well actually they were probably middle class and didn’t actually need this or that blah blah blah”
she also thinks since i’m privileged and didn’t experience what his family did that i should maybe not be communist? idk i want to radicalize them both, but since his literal parents are anti communist it might be hard.
exactly, it's a complete misunderstanding of what actually happened to think that everyone who moved was a plantation owner with slaves or something and as a result it comes off as very out of touch, because it is. It's just that the people that moved to the US for those reasons didn't have the analysis to understand the cause of the plight is neo-imperialism, not some "party elites" siphoning off state funds while the country suffers (which is simply projection)