Share yall’s journey over here. Here’s mine. TLDR: apolitical -> chud -> lib -> based commie :sicko-laser:
Was mostly apolitical until the culture war shit of 2016 and I got sucked into anti-SJW youtube. Naturally I developped the standard reactionary views (systemic racism isn’t real, offensive = funny, gays are weird, etc).
Then I went on 4chan after seeing a funny video about them trolling Shia LaBeouf, and being edgy I naturally hit the “politically incorrect” board. I knew they were edgy and I had experienced racism before but the shit on there was something else to say the least.
After that I started questioning my views and realized how cucked it is to be a reactionary minority. At this point I was a lib, cuz fuck rightists but Communism seems silly.
What made me swing left is:
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Learning Obama and Trump both supported the corruput authoritarian president in my home country.
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Taking econ and having cognitive dissonance between the lessons and real life. If the profit motive rewards benefiting society then what’s up with climate change? If “supply/demand = cheap price” then why does my mother have to ration her medicine every other month? Etc etc.
Then I stumbled on a Parenti video and everything clicked. Thanks Parenti :michael-rosen:
This isn’t a bit, I swear it isn’t a bit.
I went left because of Avatar.
But it wasn’t because of the movie itself, it was the reaction of the people I was hanging out with. I was your basic internet rationalist atheist, and I thought the movie was basic brainless fun, and then all the people I hung out with started using words like “Race Traitor” to talk about the hero of the movie and fantasizing about how the Galactic Empire would genocide the blue space cats and take the resources of the planet.
And I went, oh fuck, I’m surrounded by Nazis.
And then there was Gamergate, which further cemented me in being sure where the right position was on the subjects of both racism and misogyny, but I was still missing something because I was reading blogs by wealthy white feminists and they had a ton of good points, but then they would jump from a post about the evils of the patriarchy to photos of the $400 meal they just had in an upscale restaurant.
Turns out what I needed was a little dialectical materialism.
