I have a friend who is by all accounts very socialist but was absolutely horrified when I claimed that the USSR was not “bad” and that many of the deaths it is blamed for have a much more complicated reason. They also called me a tankie, much to my despair as it really displayed to me how many brainworms they have. They also were fairly close to calling me a genocide denier 💀
This person is a freshman in college and I’d like to try and help them unlearn these ideas. They are queer and Canadian,and they also thought Vaush was great if that’s helpful at all. Does anyone have any accessible resources to help them unlearn what they’ve been taught about the USSR?
Show them the infamous yellow parenti lecture, you gotta start by undermining the western narrative they have swallowed before you start giving them the counter-narrative
Ok so I looked it up- I didn’t realize it was named after the fact that it looked and sounded like it was filmed in a Gatorade bottle- I wasn’t sure why it was called the yellow parenti lecture but this wasn’t my first guess LMAO
Here's the big bomb he drops, you might try sending your friend just this clip if you are worried they'd tune out listening to the entire lecture. Edit: It's only 1:05 in length
https://youtu.be/eoxT1UwTM3I
Your gatorade bottle line gave me a good laugh. And yeah somebody left the VHS tape out in a hot car or something lol, I'm just glad it somehow made it onto the internet. But that's why there's the meme of "yellow parenti" you might see get tossed around here.
Based, thank you! And I’m glad you found it funny lmao
Also available as a podcast:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-yellow-speech/id1548405028?i=1000581342121
Thanks for the link, I haven't listened to the lecture for a hot minute and youtube burns my phone battery too fast to listen to it at work, it'll be fun to listen to it again in audio-only my next shift. Much appreciated.
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Thanks, I should look into that
Holy shit thank you, is the audio any better in this one?
No I'm pretty sure it's the same recording
Fair enough, I’ll still give it a listen :)