This comic that puts communism in the same boat as sexual orientation, gender and race, as if people are born communist. I thought it was pretty stupid. Other people don’t seem to mind it for some reason
EDIT: If you downvote, be cool and leave a comment. Am I not getting something? Is the comic sarcastic? Or are you just a butthurt communist? Or perhaps this is yet another American thing I’m too Eastern European to understand. Lots of Americans seem to think communism is fabulous. But, you know… Americans seem to believe a lot of bullshit, so…
Especially bullshit they’ve had no contact with. They also like to condescend to people who have had contact with said things. Not a good look. Makes them look really fucking stupid. Kinda like telling an astronaut the earth is flat
And, again, I fucking hate communists piggybacking on progressive issues. You weren’t fucking born communist. You made a choice. If you get backlash for it that is entirely your fucking problem
This comic isn’t saying (or even implying) that people are born communist, at all. The comic isn’t even implying that communism is necessarily a good thing. It’s saying that the random person clearly thinks that it should be morally acceptable not to love people who express or possess certain traits, while the messiah gave no such qualification. If your god says “love everybody”, you don’t get to say “but these people worship a different God, so I should get to hate them!”
Love everybody.
The comic makes clear that you can’t just claim to be a Christian, then reject one of the few things about which Christ was unequivocal. The ultimate point here is that most modern Christians do not follow the teachings of Jesus. That communism is mentioned is simply because it is a common scapegoat among american conservatives, who overwhelmingly identify as Christians. There has never been a significant communist presence in the united states, but that didn’t stop McCarthy from turning people against their neighbours in snipe hunts for the “reds”.
This comic that puts communism in the same boat as sexual orientation, gender and race, as if people are born communist. I thought it was pretty stupid. Other people don’t seem to mind it for some reason
https://lemmy.world/post/47411425
EDIT: If you downvote, be cool and leave a comment. Am I not getting something? Is the comic sarcastic? Or are you just a butthurt communist? Or perhaps this is yet another American thing I’m too Eastern European to understand. Lots of Americans seem to think communism is fabulous. But, you know… Americans seem to believe a lot of bullshit, so…
Especially bullshit they’ve had no contact with. They also like to condescend to people who have had contact with said things. Not a good look. Makes them look really fucking stupid. Kinda like telling an astronaut the earth is flat
And, again, I fucking hate communists piggybacking on progressive issues. You weren’t fucking born communist. You made a choice. If you get backlash for it that is entirely your fucking problem
To explain what I see:
This comic isn’t saying (or even implying) that people are born communist, at all. The comic isn’t even implying that communism is necessarily a good thing. It’s saying that the random person clearly thinks that it should be morally acceptable not to love people who express or possess certain traits, while the messiah gave no such qualification. If your god says “love everybody”, you don’t get to say “but these people worship a different God, so I should get to hate them!”
Love everybody.
The comic makes clear that you can’t just claim to be a Christian, then reject one of the few things about which Christ was unequivocal. The ultimate point here is that most modern Christians do not follow the teachings of Jesus. That communism is mentioned is simply because it is a common scapegoat among american conservatives, who overwhelmingly identify as Christians. There has never been a significant communist presence in the united states, but that didn’t stop McCarthy from turning people against their neighbours in snipe hunts for the “reds”.