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We should try to be less hostile to people from other instances (lemmygrad.ml)
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I think we should try to be more careful, not to automatically assume that everyone who is asking questions here about China/Ukraine etc. is always arguing in bad faith. I've seen multiple people who were genuinely trying to ask something here and the only response they got was mockery.

I do understand that a lot of times people who come here are trying to troll or just be annoying, but we still should try to engage in them in good faith as long as there is no reason not to do so. Not everyone who isn't from Lemmygrad is someone hostile to our ideology, and we should try to be kinder to them.

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[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's disappointing. And it is frequent, I know. I suppose my take on this is to let people be wrong. Don't try to 'correct' them. Post what you think is the truth, which could include a link to here, then leave them be. If they come back with wrecker/trolling comments, etc, it's okay to explain what they're doing so that others can see it. . The one's who are curious will follow through. In my pre-Marxist days if I had read an interesting back-and-forth only to have it disrupted by someone saying, 'Stop bullshitting…', I'd have made up my own mind about who was doing the bullshitting. We've just got to trust that we'll reach the honest ones (not the best example).

It’s just a continuation of the “this news source is biased therefore it’s wrong therefore nothing it says can be trusted therefore you’re a propagandist” game that they play.

This is the strangest thing. I have never encountered it before. Since the reddit exodus, I'm seeing it constantly on other instances. WTF?

I don't disagree with you, btw. I'm just trying to think through how Marxists can make the best of a poor intellectual terrain.