Nah not today. Tired of being treated like I’m not a reasoning human being as opposed to a name on the page of some backwater Reddit offshoot. How do you tolerate it? Don’t actually answer.
I’ll answer anyways, it’s because onlookers view conversations made online and this shapes their thinking. When people like yourself admit to never taking your interlocutor seriously, this just serves to legitimize what the other person is saying. I am a Marxist, I believe people can change, and that I shouldn’t obscure my views or fail to try to bring people up to better levels of understanding. I also have had people thank me directly, so positive reinforcement helps.
I do watch the news, what point are you trying to raise?
Nah not today. Tired of being treated like I’m not a reasoning human being as opposed to a name on the page of some backwater Reddit offshoot. How do you tolerate it? Don’t actually answer.
I’ll answer anyways, it’s because onlookers view conversations made online and this shapes their thinking. When people like yourself admit to never taking your interlocutor seriously, this just serves to legitimize what the other person is saying. I am a Marxist, I believe people can change, and that I shouldn’t obscure my views or fail to try to bring people up to better levels of understanding. I also have had people thank me directly, so positive reinforcement helps.