Yeah, I appreciate MLs who can occupy pan-leftist spaces and gently play the long game radicalizing people. I do the same sometimes but damn this anti-tankie shit makes me pull out my hair. Like I’ll deadass be as kind, polite, respectful, eye-to-eye, and generously charitable in my interpretations of others, but increasingly over the last year or so the response I get is akin to how one would talk to a piece of dogshit stuck on your shoe. I would still say it’s worth it to play nice sometimes but damn do these bratty fuckers make it needlessly exhausting.
Yeah, I appreciate MLs who can occupy pan-leftist spaces and gently play the long game radicalizing people. I do the same sometimes but damn this anti-tankie shit makes me pull out my hair. Like I’ll deadass be as kind, polite, respectful, eye-to-eye, and generously charitable in my interpretations of others, but increasingly over the last year or so the response I get is akin to how one would talk to a piece of dogshit stuck on your shoe. I would still say it’s worth it to play nice sometimes but damn do these bratty fuckers make it needlessly exhausting.