A lot of people both here and elsewhere shame people for being liberals, doing certain things, being an american, etc… And I don’t have a problem with that morally. What I mean is…I don’t really get it?

For me, I grew up in an abusive home. Shame made me compliant, but it didn’t make me a better person. In reality, IMO, it made me worse. It made me justify or hide my activities, both good and bad.

I became a communist just because it was the logical thing to do. Every other political-economic system wasn’t working and Marxism-Leninism was the only successful and advancing ideology that had real answers to problems.

So…idk. I’m not judging i suppose, it’s just one of several things that, even among comrades, I feel…alien about. Like, for instance, I generally don’t like calling normal people stupid. If it’s their job, I’ll say they’re incompetent [i.e, if they’re a professor or a documentarian on yt, then I’ll gladly say its dumb if they are] but that’s a credibility thing. I generally avoid calling the average person stupid because it’s reductive, but I mean…if someone could explain to me why they do it maybe i could understand.