I don't really get why people are engaging with it. It's a young Canadian Communist organizer with 7K followers. Who cares? Am I missing something? (Or am I just immune to being triggered by Communists with bad takes on history because I went to Berkeley?)
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I'm going to (partly) agree with both of you. "Tankies" who advocate Communism and Stalinism and such seem to be a thing. But I haven't seen them on my carefully curated timeline.
I mean, everything under the Sun is a thing, on the Internet. There are people who believe everyone in power is secretly a lizard. But if you spend time debunking every dumb idea on the Internet, a) you'll run out of time pretty quick...pic.twitter.com/KAm3SPO6R7
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and b), you end up giving these fringe ideas more attention than they deserve, inadvertently promoting them as "something serious people should be engaging with." Which gives them more weight than they merit, as ideas.
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If the person advocating this was Someone Of Substance (define how you want), sure, debunk it. But if it's just a random college student on their Twitter feed... you know, don't feel the troll, etc.
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