• macerated_baby_presidents [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    how do you know he’s autistic? I didn’t find anything about it when looking him up. Couldn’t find a social media bio.

    I’m not placing moral blame. Doesn’t matter whose “fault” it is. If Marxists are to be effective, we need to understand the world around us, so we should do some investigation. Editors could write better headlines but the bourgeois press was not built to educate leftists.

    • lapis [fae/faer, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      how do you know he’s autistic?

      while you were arguing that marxism means clicking through to articles, I was studying the blade (nah jk that’s a link to the paper the article was based on). the paper’s author states that they’re autistic and they both use and personally prefer identity-first language in their positionality statement:

      If Marxists are to be effective, we need to understand the world around us, so we should do some investigation.

      I think we may just not agree on this part, comrade – it’s my belief that understanding the likely reasons behind the choice of headline is part of understanding the world around us, and reacting to the headline is a reaction to media bias and, to an extent, the general public’s thought patterns. while reading the article itself is well and good, an evaluation of the headline alone is also valuable.