Watching Raz's stream made me sympathize with a lot of the people I saw, including him. He talked to a bunch of older women at one point who were there at the encouragement of their sons and seemed to want what pretty much everyone wants: no police brutality and no racism. Raz himself did a bit of explaining to them how this occupied area somehow accomplishes that goal.
It reminds me of years ago when I allowed myself to live with a lot of cognitive dissonance every day. When presented with a slogan or popular opinion that didn't quite make sense, I would say to myself, well, it doesn't hurt anyone to just go along with this, and my disagreement is so small/insignificant that it isn't worth the drama my disagreement would cause. I also knew that people would willfully misinterpret me and attack me just for saying that I took issue with any part of what they were saying.
Like Raz's unease with "Black Lives Matter," for example--he goes along with it and says it despite feeling that it isn't the best way to get the message he truly believes in across. If he were to say, no, BLM is not how I want to approach racial equality, I prefer to say a different slogan, he'd be completely ostracized by all of these people currently nodding along with him, even if he were to keep the exact same views on every other issue.
Internally, this caused a lot of stress over time, and anger that I couldn't articulate or understand for what it was. I felt like I had no right to be angry because it shouldn't be such a big deal. But it not only silenced me but constricted my thoughts. If it doesn't really matter, shouldn't I be focusing on bigger issues, like police brutality (in the case of BLM)?
Personally, this way of living wasn't sustainable. I couldn't handle censoring my own thoughts anymore and slowly worked to gain back the free use of my mind. When I heard Raz explaining CHAZ to the kindly older women around him, I could hear the cognitive dissonance in his words, and I wondered what was going through the women's heads as they smiled and nodded. Is it possible for a human being to stay in that state forever? What happens when the facade cracks? When you've invested so much into an idea, can that facade crack at all?
I wonder what's going on in all of these people's heads, really. Particularly the ones who truly believe in what they're doing, or the supportive onlookers. Not so much the ones in it for free shit and a good time--that makes sense.
Yeah, because communists clearly oppose jewelry and jewelry was non existent in commie countries.
What a retarded argument, of all the arguments you can make against commies you choose something of the likes "a commie uses an iphone lolololol"
I can understand you insulting him for being a landlord (capital), and I agree, but you're retarded for thinking him having jewelry (a consumer good) is hypocritical
Is your IQ lower than 80?
Good thing I wasn't talking about his iPhone, then!
I wasn't aware that having jewelry was the exact same thing as displaying one's wealth on every single finger of his hand. He also stopped by his BMW to grab something. Is a landlord's possession of a
luxury car an essential component of the redistribution of wealth and resources to the people? It's not personal possession of capital, but it is the use of the resources (money) obtained through said capital to flaunt that wealth. I think that's a pretty hypocritical practice for a communist, but I admit that mine is an outside opinion.