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lib friend who actually read theory tried to get a job at Radio Free Europe (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by thebartermyth@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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They were hemming and hawing over the morality of it to me and I was like "I feel like the psychic effects of working there would destroy you, no?" They have actually read some theory and I think consider themselves a leftist. Very funny stuff. Anyway, they didn't get the job for non-political reasons (insufficient microsoft outlook experience presumably). Sorry to use hexbear for gossip, my 'apolitical' friends wouldn't understand why this is funny and my leftist friends would think less of me.

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[–] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hot take: I think "reading theory" only really works if the person reading it is at least kind of sympathetic to the message. If they aren't they can usually pull some mental gymnastics to counter it. If you forced a diehard Lib to read 6000 pages of theory at gun point I think the result would just be a more articulate Lib, not a leftist.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or they turn into an insufferable western ultra who streams on twitch all day shit talking every AES/Global South country. That's very much a risk.

[–] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah was gonna say, I feel like when you bully Libs into reading theory they just read a bit of Marx and then become Vaushites.