We've all heard of Bean Soup Theory, but have you heard about Blueberry Pie Theory?
Imagine you go to a bakery and ask the baker for a slice of blueberry pie. The baker gives you a slice of apple pie. You tell the baker that's not what you ordered and want a slice of blueberry pie. In response, the baker becomes angry and starts mocking and belittling you in a very condescending manner – "IT'S A REAL SHAME YOU DON'T WANT APPLE PIE, APPLES ARE OBJECTIVELY BETTER THAN BLUEBERRIES, YOU OBVIOUSLY HATE APPLES WHEN APPLES ARE THE BEST THING EVER."
I see this mentality way too often in leftist spaces, especially online. For instance, I will ask for a Marxist critique of XYZ. Someone will always respond by viciously defending XYZ and telling me I'm in the wrong for wanting to critique it, even before they know what my critique even is. Why does this happen so often? Do people in leftist spaces take their sacred cows so seriously that they feel the need to degrade anyone who even suggests that their sacred cows aren't immune to criticism?
It's not so much the dogmatism itself, but simply the fact people online behave like this: you start a discussion by asking for one thing, someone gets obviously upset and gives you the opposite of what you asked for. Do leftists just not understand nuance and insist on personalizing everything, similar to the "Bean Soup" stuff you see on TikTok?
53 posts and 3 image replies omitted.>>783181>>784207Sounds like an issue with arrogance more than anything.
>>784207tbh this isn't a uniquely left-wing phenomenon. programming types are generally like this
e.g. if you ask "how can i make a train simulator in X programming language" they're very likely to go "why are you using X? Y is much better (either in general, or for this use case.)" or if you ask (say) "how can i make a bar chart using pure html/js/css" they're likely to go "why would you do that when you could import a chart library?"
indeed i'd say within programming circles there's even some assumption that it's good to be like this because many of the questions people pose are "how can i make a website that calls an AI to write a python script to scrape an excel file that i'm using as a database?" tier. this is a question you could answer, but it's wrong in almost every part of its premise. this is just about the worst way to achieve whatever (unspecified) end the asker is going for, so naturally he'll struggle to get an answer.
>>784711Interesting how the people in those circles are overwhelmingly autistic too.
>>783963I dont say no but isn't that the same for allists?