• hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Entertain the premise for a second here -- that establishing socialism is so important that doing at least some bad things to achieve that end is justified.

    Even using that pure utilitarian framework, you still have to get some net benefit from the bad thing for it to be justified. You're not going to ever peel off any appreciable amount of neckbeards who are so deeply racist that they'll write you off entirely unless you drop a bunch of n-words. So there's no benefit here even before you start to consider the alienating effect this has on the vast majority of people who aren't thoroughly racist neckbeards.

    • Dyno [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      establishing socialism is so important that doing at least some bad things to achieve that end is justified

      :stalin-garrison::stalin-joking:

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, the high-level premise isn't what's mistaken here. What's mistaken is the specific idea that it's more helpful to make racist overtures to racist neckbeards than it is to reach out to anyone who isn't white.

        Sometimes I think V*ush posting is :haram:, but then I think how important it is for leftists to loudly, constantly shout this shit down. Groups are often judged by the worst of their members, and distancing any burgeoning leftist movement from racist garbage is worthy of attention.