I never hide my views and am always open to respectfully talk about Socialism and Marxism to friends and others if the topic comes up but today I feel like I might have to shut up in the future.
I'm in Law School and today the topic of the Supreme Court giving constitutional sanction first Red Scare came up. To my surprise most students in the discussion defended jailing leftists. One girl even said that although the communist pamphlets the defendant was handing out wasn't the same as inciting an imminent revolution "small ideas often turn into big ideas that ruin countries." She actually advocated banning books and censoring TV from socialist ideas because "the government exists to protect the people even from themselves." Another guy mocked the notion in the case of the "Moderate Wing of the Socialist Party" and said "a moderate socialist? that's like a moderate Nazi."
In another class the topic of Allende and the Coup came up (in relation to a defamation suit between a US army guy and a movie company, I won't really get into it). Long story short I pointed out the US involvement in the Coup and my professor said they did it because "Allende was a Communist Dictator." I let it slide but just pointed out that Kissinger knew that Pinochet was going to purge and murder people and he just offhandedly said "yes they wiped out the communists" before moving onto another question.
I just needed to rant on leftypol because this shit kind of impacted me today. People I know who I'm friendly with seem to have the view that I can be justifiably jailed or murdered under certain circumstances. The worst part is now I'm paranoid that everybody at my Law School actually despises me solely for my views, that they think I'm an evil Nazi, but is friendly to my face. Feels bad.
Depressed about feeling like I need to hide my beliefs
Sounds like conservative anti communism mixed with the aggressiveness of SJWs to protect the institutions that they're going to be working in.
Sounds like you're now realizing the truth that the average person is extremely reactionary, and that there is no such thing as a career for revolutionaries.
Just feels really de-humanizing. I've never really felt like this before. A creeping sense of hopelessness has been coming over me for awhile when it comes to politics.
get used to it. everything you believe is shit. you know how I know this? Because you're in law school, so I know you just got a degree and colleges have degraded to completely anti-intellectual brainwashing factories.
Do yourself a favor and abandon your beliefs. All they will do is hold you back. Once you're out of college and you don't have to direct your attention in the way they want it directed or display the opinions they want you to display, then start devising a worldview and adopting beliefs.
Hindsight is 20/20. I know from experience that your brain is thoroughly scrambled right now.
Law School (and the legal profession in general) is the 9th circle of liberal hell. Read pic related. If you want to make a difference pick a different profession. Shit even finance is less liberal.
He might try to do that on an individual level, but most people wont. He'll simply be an atomized leftist once he starts working.
There are no professions to make a meaningful difference.
The literal fuck did you expect, no shit the majority of people there are dumbass capitalists only in it for cash, in fact why are you even there, fighting for proletarian rights in law is like fighting for proletarian rights in wall street, it's fucking contradictory.
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How does that bring about revolution? And doctors in the west are just petty bourgeoisie capitalists and loan sharks making money off of people's misery. And half their shit doesn't even work anyway.