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Hasan Piker interviews Cuban journalist
(thelemmy.club)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43545612
cross-posted from: https://expressional.social/users/Peter_Link/statuses/116111218052321484
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your post certainly is true, but that doesn't refute totally the idea of opportunism...because he wants the big money of being a dancing monkey for a streaming platform having a relatively controversial act to stand out from the masses of booba streamers, vtubers and magat worms, but feeling like some kind of erudite on marxism at the same time
Well this is why I wondered about the use of the word, if it is being used in some way I don't follow on the meaning of. Because unless you have things you can point to that he's done or said that would suggest he's insincere, I'm not sure opportunist is the right word for it. People can be true believers and still do harm, so it's not like he can't also qualify for criticism even if he's not an opportunist.
I can say that the way I tend to interpret the word: an opportunist is someone who seizes on a moment for personal gain, even if (or especially if) it's at the cost of harm done to others; the aim is to play whatever part needs to be played in order to "get theirs" without really believing in it or taking it seriously.
I don't think this is the same inherently as acting on your material interests, even though the two can overlap.
At any rate, I'm more interested in whether he's overall doing harm or good to the cause than whether he's fully sincere about it.
maybe you're right...the word is not totally appropiate to define his actions, but we can't ignore the material conditions: he's a streamer who gets big money from a streaming platform in capitalism, owned by people that surely don't appreciate marxism or too militant leftism
Oh I agree completely on that. It's important to take that kind of stuff into account and be wary of those who are, by their position in life, incentivized to act in various ways against the interests of the international working class, the marginalized, etc.
To use myself as an example: Even though I'm no petty bourgeoisie streamer, I would expect an ML analysis to have some wariness pointed at me because I live in the imperial core and so my conditions are going to incentivize me to be more protective of the status quo than someone who lives in an imperialized country. That doesn't mean I'm de facto a less trustworthy person, or that I must necessarily have a worse understanding of the world than people in an imperialized country, but it does mean that broadly speaking, it makes sense for international efforts and analysis to take that dynamic into account when considering how to organize, where to put the most attention, and so on.