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I don't know, it probably won't most of the time, but I always hope this kind of obvious bullshit scaremongering will have the opposite intended effect. Along similar lines to the Streisand effect, where it turns more people onto Marxism-Leninism simply by virtue of it being pointed out in a way people would not have paused to consider otherwise. Something they're told is bad, even taboo tends to drive a curiosity in at least many people along with a desire to dig into it further and find out. I hope some people see the kind of post or article that receives this "warning" and think "yeah that perspective actually make sense," only to see a red exclamation mark warning of the the terrible threat that "this perspective is bad and wrong(tm)!" I think that this warning alone would probably have that positive effect at least some of the time. Like a parental warning labels on album covers in the 90s.

The real issue, the part that really does kill that curiosity is when it's backed up by the culture within the community that a person identifies with, where all their friends and people they respect echo that it's bad. Where it's not just a warning marker on a post, but where a person's in-group who they see posting memes and making funny jokes and saying silly things that make them feel happy and comfortable, giving them those hits of dopamine we all get when we feel part of a group. When those people are also going on about how bad the "Marxist-Leninists" are, that's when warning labels like this just make a person shut down any consideration for it, roll their eyes and close the post. The truly insidious thing that pieFed is doing (and that reddit does and that all the bourgeois-captured social media does) is they foster and cultivate anticommunist (aka fascist) community and that really is what puts the nails in the coffins of what could have been so many people's radicalism. That's what makes pieFed a cancer metastasizing in lemmy.

There’s no need to warn for fascism because posts that link to them are not displayed in the first place.

dw everyone, this dude solved fascism. it's really lucky too that the judge & jury & ultimate deliberator on fascism happens to be this dude otherwise that'd get real awkward

I'm working on this theory that there's a certain level of literacy that some people reach, where they can read and nominally understand a text, but not apply any critical thinking at all. And they're terrified of reading anything from a non-approved source because they feel like it'll reprogram their brain. Yes, I've read masses, elites and rebels, and I agree, for the most part. But it feels like in at least some cases this goes way beyond just "going along with it" and not wanting your worldview challenged. Like that post about people not liking books written in first person because "I wouldn't do that"; it just goes straight in, zero filter. On some level they're aware of this, but somehow can't concieve of reading a thing and -not- believing it. Entertaining an idea without subscribing to it. So they just reject it outright. And to be clear I don't blame them, I blame whatever passes for an education system.

we should do that here but have it say like nerd alert or something

Shows this for me now.

I bet Rimu would cry if you asked them to define Marxism-Leninism irl

Wait, there's a maga lemmy? LMAO how do they feel about it being created by eeeevil communists?

Not only that they'll flat out remove you from being shown if question it, and not show mod actions

https://lemmy.ml/post/47139580

Rimu crash out continues