11-21-2011, 03:36 PM
The starbucks guy was just one example though. I see this coming from the far right in person, and in the media....The hypocrisy of the right amazes me, like when Newt Gingrich told Occupy protestors to go get a job and take a bath. Pretty ass backwards to tell people who are protesting about jobs not being available to go get one, and talk down on them like they are worthless bums. Why doesn't he fly out to Nigeria or Ethiopia and tell those people the same thing while he's at it? Gingrich is the perfect example of a tool for what we see coming from the far right nowadays. But in times of crisis, I can hardly be surprised. Reactionary philosophy becomes quite popular in such times.
Never said people couldn't change. They do all the time. There are a number of people on that site I posted who are ex-fascists, and realized how bad and hateful their views were. Now they are anti-war, love-everybody Communist hippies. I live in a Democratic state, so it is a bit easier for me to erase peoples misconceptions of what Socialism really is and the principles it seeks to achieve. But when I hear hateful comments like that, it tells me something about that person, and depending on their tone, if they are approachable or not. But I dont want to look like a Jehova's Witness either. If I happen to get into a political discussion with someone, I will explain to them the grounds of my views and resources where they can get further information if they wish to understand them more.
Never said people couldn't change. They do all the time. There are a number of people on that site I posted who are ex-fascists, and realized how bad and hateful their views were. Now they are anti-war, love-everybody Communist hippies. I live in a Democratic state, so it is a bit easier for me to erase peoples misconceptions of what Socialism really is and the principles it seeks to achieve. But when I hear hateful comments like that, it tells me something about that person, and depending on their tone, if they are approachable or not. But I dont want to look like a Jehova's Witness either. If I happen to get into a political discussion with someone, I will explain to them the grounds of my views and resources where they can get further information if they wish to understand them more.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)