the rachel drama/hack, the pronoun struggle sessions, and now this (most likely) false accusation against beatnik show that there’s a lot of asshats with no morality willing to use anything against the site, and we need to get a lot smarter and stop falling for it
I’m struggling to see how advocating for a sense of community rather than alienation is condescending.
I dunno, I’m starting to question whether this is in good faith or not anymore. I’m not going to engage in a discussion about how valid a communist I personally am.
I don’t know how else to convince you that a forum for people with a shared ideology, which engages - or has known to engage - in earnest discourse is a good thing, and that considering it a community is not harmful. To address your claim that it is “not fine.”
I dunno, I’m starting to question whether this is in good faith or not anymore.
Good! You are learning. You have no assurance either way, so you have to accept either as a possibility at least. Thats part of posting on a forum.
But you are also not learning. You’ve take personally as some sort of attack something that, if you had emotional detachment and uncare for posts on website, you would have understood as a generic statement about a generic poster on this website (which is how it was intended). I don’t know you! As far as I know, you fit that description, and I can’t know any more than that. That’s why the appeal to our shared communism is dopey; you don’t know me or what I believe, and I don’t know you, and this website is by all evidence mostly people who like that who just like to be called communists. Maybe not even mostly, since there are anarchists and people who don’t buy stickers and pins at all here, too. So it is dopey to me when people pretend they are doing revolution when they post here, it reads as play-acting. The condescending part is more a matter of tone: “Surely you must agree with me, we are both marxist-leninist-maoists and love the workers, so you are wrong and I am right!”
E: as for earnest discussion, that doesn’t require and can actually be hindered by community. We are doing it now and I don’t consider myself in any community with you.
And I guess my other point is that if you’re doing things that are alienating and make people “log off,” you should reconsider whether it’s right to alienate people such that it pushes them out
