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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4493698
As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them,unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward. -Mao Zedong
I don’t think people are inherently anything. We are capable of incredible good and evil. Evil is getting the last laugh right now, though, and at pretty much all levels of social strata, which makes it difficult for me to take the basically good helpless lemming rhetoric seriously.
I hear you. FWIW I don’t subscribe to the “helpless lemming” idea either. To me the “evil” I see in the average burgerlander (I’m from the US) is an apathetic one. Not ignorant, just uncaring. I talked about this in an a post I made about messaging: