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The goal of this to show that they are actually good people? Because.... showing a few wrongly attributed quotes doesn't help their image or the historical context.
what level of brain rot is this, oh wait lemmy.world, that explains things
It's so bad, it's become a gut reaction at this point.
But seriously if we want liberals to actually become socialists making fun of them is the worst way to do this.
The only way to reach westerners is on the other side of a crisis that affects them personally. Anyone who can see the malicious cruelty of everyday life in America as well as the huge misery they export everywhere else and either pretend they don't know or shrug it off ain't gonna be converted by morality or reason, they're gonna be reached once it happens to them or the handful of people they might actually care about.
I personally try to be helpful and nicer when somebody's shown genuine curiosity or naive misguidedness. We've all been there at one point. But there's far too many who are just parroting the US line as if it were gospel and I don't think ridiculing them is even the worst option.