Him: Learn about both sides of the parts you’re angry about. Really understand their perspective before you reject it.
I like when liberals take the scenic route to dialectics but then don't know the words "dialectical materialism" so they mystify it as whatever makes them seem sensible without any effort. Turn that around on him. Yeah you should understand the other side. The totality of the other side, all the levels of relationships it operates through. Then you should understand the same of your side. Then you should find some new thing that combines the good parts of both and abandons the bad parts so that you create a less toxic environment where those points of conflict you identified don't boil over from the contradictory natures of the two groups. In the worst cases where the relationship is fundamentally toxic and grows out of conditions, the slave and the master or the executive and the worker, those categories can't exist without the more powerful one thriving on the persecution of the weaker one because of the factors that create those relationships. In the more natural relationships, male/female or human/nature or ethnicity/ethnicity, those things can't be abolished and we're stuck finding common ground and less exploitative ways of interacting.
Give him Mao's On Contradiction with Obama photoshopped onto the cover.
"Never come to a conclusion" seems to be an extremely common brain worm. It's some kind of epistemology where reality is simply too complex to be understood and all information could potentially be false or biased so why even try understanding? Just go about your business and be quiet.
I like when liberals take the scenic route to dialectics but then don't know the words "dialectical materialism" so they mystify it as whatever makes them seem sensible without any effort. Turn that around on him. Yeah you should understand the other side. The totality of the other side, all the levels of relationships it operates through. Then you should understand the same of your side. Then you should find some new thing that combines the good parts of both and abandons the bad parts so that you create a less toxic environment where those points of conflict you identified don't boil over from the contradictory natures of the two groups. In the worst cases where the relationship is fundamentally toxic and grows out of conditions, the slave and the master or the executive and the worker, those categories can't exist without the more powerful one thriving on the persecution of the weaker one because of the factors that create those relationships. In the more natural relationships, male/female or human/nature or ethnicity/ethnicity, those things can't be abolished and we're stuck finding common ground and less exploitative ways of interacting.
Give him Mao's On Contradiction with Obama photoshopped onto the cover.
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Most of the time the prominent thinkers of a movement will explicitly write about their motivation lmao
Sounds like he just wants excuses to stay at brunch 24/7, which is honestly pretty common for well off libs
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"Never come to a conclusion" seems to be an extremely common brain worm. It's some kind of epistemology where reality is simply too complex to be understood and all information could potentially be false or biased so why even try understanding? Just go about your business and be quiet.
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This is the thirteenth type of liberalism.