see a transophobe, racist, etc. Ban them :gulag:

  • thrown_away_dev [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Popper is a wrecker.

    Popper's rejection of Marxism during his teenage years left a profound mark on his thought. He had at one point joined a socialist association, and for a few months in 1919 considered himself a communist.[38] Although it is known that Popper worked as an office boy at the communist headquarters, whether or not he ever became a member of the Communist Party is unclear.[39] During this time he became familiar with the Marxist view of economics, class conflict, and history.[14] Although he quickly became disillusioned with the views expounded by Marxists, his flirtation with the ideology led him to distance himself from those who believed that spilling blood for the sake of a revolution was necessary. He then took the view that when it came to sacrificing human lives, one was to think and act with extreme prudence.

      • thrown_away_dev [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        We really need to make the effort to quote leftists and anarchists instead of regurgitating lib talking points that the media spoonfeeds us. Popper was promoted here and elsewhere to throw budding leftists off the scent and capture them in neoliberal mindsets. He's bad folks.

        • BeanBoy [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah maybe promoting one of the founders of the Mont Pelerin Society is not the move

        • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I like him in social science fields like psych (damn near essential when you have some crazy claims from wackadoodles) but fields like sociology where its impossible to operationalize sometimes then yeah we should move popper away. i personally love popperian falsification but im also a stats nerd who actually cares about having good data and methods in science