Jacobin socialists love Walmart and hate anything that cuts through the idealist bullshit of the middle class.
A left that only knows how to shame, call out, privilege-check, and diagnose the allegedly unsavory motivations of people who disagree with us will lose a lot of persuadable people whose material interests should put them on our side.
this bloodless dork puts scare quotes around "allegedly unsavory motivations" (read Settlers) and yet turns on a dime to LARP as a woke redpilled Marxist who has analyzed peoples material interests and somehow knows they're comrades.
When you've succumbed to pure ideology, it makes you so bad at your job that even a logic nerd is forced to put an obvious contradiction in the same sentence!
Privilege is clearly a thing, but I don't trust the use of that word and the presentation of the idea in the hands of white upper middle class/rich people.
Nothing is worse than being told you're privileged than by someone who learned about Marxism by reading about it and having a curiousity about ideology/politics rather than someone who intuited it by having a hard life.
Personally, I've had much more success building friendships, pushing people towards communities where leftist ideas exist organically and showing strong evidence what I believe - over bludgeoning someone over the head with insults.
People in real life don't make fucking sense and are full of contradictions, assuming their motivations and insulting them first is just going to make them close up and make you look like you a weirdo that spends too much fucking time online. Thinking that social interaction is dumb and not wanting to understand it makes you dumb.
I don't think he's saying "Deny that these things exist and say right wing shit" but he's saying "You live in reality and messaging is important because people are complex, and in general, fragile."