• Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world
    44·
    1 year ago

    You can tell this person is reasonably intelligent. They are articulate enough to present this as an actual argument.

    And yet they’re still capable of falling into fallacy and propaganda.

    Just a reminder that this is the type of person to watch out for in real life. This is an obvious example, but intelligent sounding people are still susceptible to such bullshit, and theyre the ones who do the best to make it sound right.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
      151·
      1 year ago

      American diabolism is a hell of a drug.

      There’s plenty wrong with the US if that’s your concern, and no need to invent the kind of brain-rot that leads to takes like “I want to move from the US to the DPRK because they actually respect workers.”

    • DragonTypeWyvern
      63·
      1 year ago

      You really need to understand that people that just be lying sometimes.

    • DragonTypeWyvern
      92·
      1 year ago

      The concept of “wage slavery” refers to the idea that many people are not free to quit a bad job unless they enjoy being homeless and starving. Or having their kids be homeless and starving for that matter. Given this period was prior to the labor movement in America it’s more fitting than I think a lot of people would want to admit, even if the rest of his argument bounces between equal parts of distasteful, ignorant, and insane.

      Also, he’s just flat out ignoring that poor Southern whites existed as well, often in even worse straits than their Northern equivalents because they had to compete with actual slave labor.

      I don’t really like the term for exactly this juxtaposition. It’s just disrespectful to the sheer scale of cruelty in chattel slavery, and opens your arguments to pedantic types who will ignore any reasonable points you have to quibble about your questionable word choice.