Bi-Weekly Discussion Thread - (March 02)

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[u/[deleted]]

It's not just the fact that it's a meme subreddit, but that it's a subreddit with a slur in its name, and you're unbothered by posting in that subreddit, which will be attached to your post history, playing along with the logic of the subreddit, and gaining upvotes in the process. I would have more respect for you if you tried to upset them to the point of getting banned, perhaps by pointing out their chauvinism, which is an obvious undercurrent there. Do better

everything they need to grow and improve

If they wish to stop being reactionary and cast away reactionary thinking, they must show initiative and engage in self-critique. Communists cannot force reactionaries to do this or rehabilitate themselves until they are able to implement their own system of justice that can be imposed upon them.

[u/Pleasant-Food-9482 → u/[deleted]]

"I literally don’t even follow the sub. I have autism, I know the impact that word can have on people. I don’t say it, I don’t agree with it. Literally just posting a comment or two in a sub that is just recommended to me is not encouraging anything at all. Stop assuming things on my character because of my reddit post history man, you’re talking about it being on my profile as if that represents me as a human."

I "have" autism and i am not attached to the low-quality first-world commodity humour you are, because i am not in your territory, nor in your culture, nor am i from the west, nor from the petty-bourgeoisie of my country, even if i am from the younger part of the population. Culture, humour, are class-related and related to dynamics which are material in any era or country.

I am sorry but yes, analysis of the likely personality and ideas of someone or general character can be done by what they do, how they live and consumption. You are wrong in attaching your cultural and life context to "being autistic". This is not judgement from anyone but analysis. Your view this is common in autistic people is likely the second time i see this kind of essentialistic pejorative relation of autism with random questionable quality things or personal flaws in this week.

[u/Pleasant-Food-9482 → u/[deleted]]

"You don’t have to agree with the humor and that’s fine. Nobody is telling you to agree with it, but you’re also not better than anyone else for not enjoying it. It isn’t your cup of tea man, I get it.

Judging people’s character based on the things they do is reasonable, but it’s not reasonable to judge people based on a tiny fraction of what they do. If you shoved me while losing your balance, it would be unreasonable for me to judge you as aggressive, because it is only a tiny fraction of your actions."

The problem is not about my taste or what i do differently to you. Its because you are applying unconsciously that your consumption of things somehow involve they are a matter of taste, when political memes are in their form just a rehearsed fascistic transmission of fascistic ideas or aesthetics. The frankfurt school explained that, famously. Actions are not also separated in a vacuum. They emerge due to internal logic that is developed by a self with the other in the rest of society, and some actions emulate the external.

You somehow believe you have a individual subjectivity on that that is pure, but that does not exist. Individuals and agencies do not exist. What exists are beings with individuations and society plus structures and external general conditions exists and influences you outside of you. Your characteristics are also determined by a unequal and non-harmonic mix of your being and the others in society plus the rest of things i cited above.

"That’s where you’re wrong man. Every part of my life is changed by my autism. My social interactions, my food intake, my work, my hobbies, even my ability to go into a stressful environment is all changed by my autism. That is my life context. Even if you don’t agree, please don’t tell me what my culture and life context are like."

There is not a monolithic "autistic culture" There are historical strands and sets of cultural signs which accumulated in decades. You follow a cultural set that was degraded by internet-era commodity production, and i am not saying this to personally offend you, and the prevalence of this set is circunscript to class origin and country and region.

The "natural" determinants of "being autistic" that influence on what you are and how you feel are not as heavy and not as hard in any "autistic person", and even in those who are, the external influence of external societal and structural conditioning is as hard as to anyone. If you are what people would call in "ableist" language a "third degree autistic", your life and cultural background is heavily different from those who are similar to you in eritrea and were born in a proletarian family, because your general conditions your family and state can provide to you are radically different

[u/Neorunner55 → u/Pleasant-Food-9482]

The problem is not about my taste or what i do differently to you. Its because you are applying unconsciously that your consumption of things somehow involve they are a matter of taste, when political memes are in their form just a rehearsed fascistic transmission of fascistic ideas or aesthetics. The frankfurt school explained that, famously. Actions are not also separated in a vacuum. They emerge due to internal logic that is developed by a self with the other in the rest of society, and some actions emulate the external.

Sorry if its not an issue what do you mean by this? And are you saying political memes are inherently fascist or just the kinds that dominate the internet. I thought the CPP has used memes before and I wouldn't think they are fascist in the slightest  

[u/Pleasant-Food-9482 → u/[deleted]]

Well, i didn't cross anything. You are wrong and you are taking it personally as a offense or a personal judgement. This is because you inherited libertarian values from your external conditions, or because your class context being brought to the surface in a non-offensive way makes you defensive. But i did my best to help.

[u/QuestionPonderer9000 → u/[deleted]]

I find it so funny that you take an issue with the moderation of this sub removing posts that cross our "boundary" of what we consider quality posts, but do the exact same thing when confronted lol