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This is why it's fruitless to argue with Marxists--they subjugate truth to layers of shifting context. Non-Marxist: Is <objectively true statement> true? Marxi
by mce1123 8y ago
This is why it's fruitless to argue with Marxists--they subjugate truth to layers of shifting context.
Non-Marxist: Is <objectively true statement> true?
Marxist: No. <objectively true statement> was/is/will be used against my political tribe, therefore it is false.
Non-Marxist: Well, can it just be "technically" true in this narrow case if we ignore the greater context?
Marxist: I don't understand what you're talking about.
Non-Marxist: Can anything be both true and politically inconvenient?
Marxist: What a stupid question. Of course not!
It's a wonder how so many of these people get into tech. How can you study science if your ideology invalidates Newtonian mechanics because it was invented to help England bombard natives?
- dang 8y agoIf there's one thing you could have done to make this ideological hell worse, it's drag Marx into it. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17864571 and marked it off-topic.
- mce1123 8y agobuddy, this thread is Marx all the way up and down. but point taken. I'll keep overt politics off this site from now on.
- dang 8y ago> this thread is Marx all the way up and down That's tarring with way too thick a brush. If we're going to have non-dumb conversations here, there needs to be room for some detail.
- ionised 8y agoAll you've done here is create an outrageous caricature in your head to argue against.