Look, just because the most influential philosopher of the last thousand years spent his life explaining it and libraries of books have been written about his work with still more books written about those books, doesn’t mean that they can be expected to know what it means. They need you to explain it and respond to all their dumbass questions
I attribute this to my uncle, though it was years ago. I was butting heads about communism. I stopped for a moment to ask him what socialism is. I don’t even think he said it’s when the government does stuff; he just said it’s when taxes are 70%. It gave me the clarity of mind to just give him the thumbs up and go do something else because he wasn’t going to listen and he’d never agree with me because he was adamant and ignorant
no one ever seems to stop and think, “I don’t actually know that much about socialism, or socialist countries, or socialist history.”
Look, just because the most influential philosopher of the last thousand years spent his life explaining it and libraries of books have been written about his work with still more books written about those books, doesn’t mean that they can be expected to know what it means. They need you to explain it and respond to all their dumbass questions
I attribute this to my uncle, though it was years ago. I was butting heads about communism. I stopped for a moment to ask him what socialism is. I don’t even think he said it’s when the government does stuff; he just said it’s when taxes are 70%. It gave me the clarity of mind to just give him the thumbs up and go do something else because he wasn’t going to listen and he’d never agree with me because he was adamant and ignorant
I remember thinking exactly that shortly after the 2016 election. Now I’m here