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Not being taken seriously, mocked for my views and people not believing a word I say. (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml
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I don't want to complain too much since in all honesty this isn't even remotely a serious enough topic. As I've gotten more and more educated in ML and adjascent knowledge, I've tried explaining to people my views, why they make sense and how they apply to the urrent world we live in. I push back when people claim outrageous things and I get mocked in return and called a fool. Not being taken serious is harder than I thought and I knew this would happen kind of, but never expected for people, family, friends to actively not take any of this seriously. Should I just accept that ML views are so radical that people don't even want to hear them? Or should I push forward?

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your comments, it's gotten clear to me that I was too aggressive and wasn't using the right approach when talking about certain things, I auto assumed the other person would receive what I'm talking about with open arms which was the wrong course of action. Will adjust my framing and discussion to meet the person halfway next time.

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[–] 6 points 7 months ago

I push back when people claim outrageous things and I get mocked in return and called a fool

effects of a life under capitalist propaganda, the fight isn't easy

but never expected for people, family, friends to actively not take any of this seriously

again, propaganda affects everyone, your family is not inmune (sometimes not even ourselves)

Should I just accept that ML views are so radical that people don’t even want to hear them?

they're not "so" radical in many ways, i'd say that some people would agree to most of them and they can even have ideas comparable to marxism as a solution for the current world issues, but again...propaganda makes the open use of marx and marxism pretty "icky" for common people because they were raised with stereotypes and disinfo...

-"ugh, lefties are cringe!"

-"marx? that guy didn't run a business!"

-"class war? that's hating successful people!"

-"maoism? he was a predator and killed a gorillion chinese people!"

-"cuba? those are terrorists who hate freedom!"

"das kapital? i don't want to read about pronouns and how there's lots of genders and how we should hate rich people!"

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