I love how people think here that I'm rigidly stuck in a belief simply because I do not want to stop questionning their rethoric.. It's very interesting socially speaking. But being open to change does not necessarily mean starting to agree with everyone or even aknowledging the legitimacy of their words.
My conviction is just an illusion that makes you think that I'm a rock in my belief system, when in reality, I've changed my vision and values a LOT since I came here.
Yup, it's not about winning, it't about politicizing. Something that is not a competition, but a necessity under the rise of fascism.
I do let people shape my beliefs.
ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
> In fact, no late that yersterday, I listened to a 16yo activist. This allowed me to understand and prevent myself from developing a major bias toward the fights of younger politicized people.
> Just a mear week ago - as I explained earlier - I listened to an activist explaining how anti-asian racism and specifically the cases of North Korea and China were overused under the colonial ombrellas of antifascism for no reasonnable reasons other than making shamefull comparison to "shamefull" countries when they are really not worse that what is happening at the moment in the western world.
> A few week before that, I learned about the horrors of racism linked with gentrification and completely changed my vision of the way I apprehend noise in the public space.
I have hundreds of exemple like that in this year alone. Btw... did you noticed that I'm using swear words now ? I did that after multiple people convinced me of the futility of keeping my vocabulary safe in front of people who want me dead. If I said "
I will never let anyone mold my thought and beliefs" when I was a conspiracy theorist and borderline reactionnary..
I would have NEVER become a leftist.
My reactance in front of your guyz's rethorics and the biases that you guys have created in response are completely preventing you from looking at the actual nature of the person that is talking to you right now. A person that is literally defined by change and the idea that listening to people and allowing them to change who you are is one of the best quality one can have.
And if you don't understand what I'm saying here. I suggest you look at my messages that were adressed to this thread
before and
after Blax entered the discussion.
"Think beyond" does not only means thinks "something else" or think beyond "what you believe about the world while being careful of your biases".
It literally means.. "think beyond"
the image that I project.
My biggest rightist belief is this:
I can abandon the idea that we must keep talking to rightist and reactionnaries to convince them in - and only in - closed spaces like this one or in a family gatherin for ex.
Many radical leftists would laugh or ridiculize me for doing what I'm doing here. But I just can't give up on this idea. I was like them, so if I changed, this means that everyone has that same potential.