• ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    So I think there is a discussion and attitude element to it.

    The same comment can be interpreted differently based on the author instance by liberals.

    Do the same type of comment with an account on .ml and see if people will call you tankie or not.

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        8 days ago

        What Losurdo wrote related to that? I never read anything from him(I suck at reading important shit).

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          8 days ago

          It’s a common throughline in his writing, usually related to how we pervieve information based on our perception of the source. If the US says a country is evil, leftists might be suspicious of this claim and sometimes assume the opposite (to an extent), while conservatives would happily go along with it.

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              8 days ago

              Yep! If Xi Jinping speaks about unity in China, liberals immediately assume he is talking about Han supremacy, while communists will see it more about socialist unity.

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              8 days ago

              Not from him, but he put it to paper in an influential way that made it a salient topic among Marxists, at least among those familiar with Losurdo/Rockhill/etc.