Anonymous raggoon 11w

Not only are they saying NOTHING which can’t be said in everyday language. Most of the time these long drawn out vocabularies really hold zero meaning. Like I was listening to the radio and my mom was nodding along and I went “tell me what that man just said” and my mom couldn’t repeat it back.

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Anonymous #1 11w

With political thought especially, you have to be good at talking to regular people (non-academics) at their level so they understand your ideas, *especially* when it comes to critiquing systems of power. Because otherwise, who the fuck are you actually reaching? What change are you affecting?

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Anonymous #1 11w

Even as a socialist, it really fucking annoys me when other socialists and leftists put up this barrier against people. "Read theory and then come back to have a conversation." Like?? Motherfucker most people don't have the time and energy to get through super dense readings from a hundred years ago. I love it, you love it because we're nerds about this stuff; most people aren't though. Just, actively pushing away potential allies and comrades. Drives me up the wall

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Anonymous #1 11w

YES!! So many big TikTok creators who talk about social politics use big buzz words and I roll my eyes and scroll. Idc if ur also a leftist stole sounding like an egoist!! It doesn’t make u sound genuine! Also heavily agree w how back then only scholars were able to interact with certain material!

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Anonymous #1 11w

Many ppl bring up the who thing w literature too about how we need to look deeper into reading and how it offers “perspective” and we need to “read diverse literature” and all that Bs. Yk what reading was to common ppl back in ye old days right before the radio came around? Entertainment. It was merely entertainment. Can it also hold messaging? Yes. But not every book need to feed you a lesson. And the only literature trying to make heavy commentary were mostly read and discussed in scholarly-

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Anonymous raggoon 11w

Settings. Like reading was a luxury at one point yes. But reading in itself isn’t this huge fucking hoopla about intellectualism.

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Anonymous raggoon 11w

(I feel obligated as a library worker to encourage everyone to read and be intellectually curious about the world lol) But yeah, we should open up these kinds of discussions beyond academic circles and into real life. Like with music, film, tv, online content. Stories is how we interact with the world and if people can't understand and connect with what you're saying, they're gonna click onto something else. Call people in rather than calling them out

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Anonymous raggoon 11w

No one wants feel stupid or not good enough to engage in certain conversations, it's just shutting people off from wanting to learn more. Sometimes, it directly guides them to the right and all the harmful shit they spew

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