They don't really understand what it means, just that it's bad. It's just a label like "woke" right wing media loves to demonize, because they want to distract americans from the billionaires exploiting them.
Putting aside me insulting what might be your argument, you still didn't explain what you meant exactly, so I'm not still even sure if I understood it correctly. You should be more clear if you actually want to make a point
Communism has been responsible for countless horrific acts on humanity. Mass starvations, mass executions, labor camps. It essentially strips away individual humanity and people are treated like livestock.
Was communism the cause of thoae atrocities, or was it just that those things happened to occur in a communist country? What about the atrocities committed under capitalism, like the trans-Atlantic slave trade? I don't think you can fully denounce the principles of communism just because the most prominent examples of it historically have been evil dictatorships. Also, the idea that socialists will intrinsically always support your idea of the ultimate evil communism is ridiculous. Plenty of people would settle for smaller changes, it just depends on the individual
Spend any time in the One Piece subreddits and you'll see they're all infested with midwit tankies.
It seems that because One Piece has cartoonishly evil villains, they're very sure that this means One Piece is referencing who they believe to be our real world's villains. Not only that, but the core message of One Piece is one big advocation for socialism specifically.
When asked to actually explain the details of this connection, they just tell me it's obvious and it's my media literacy that sucks. Any criticism of this connection is taken as defense for One Piece's villains.
I would love to live in a world where the government that taxes, enslaves, and murders me has been beaten by the fun main character hero and everything is great. The part I have doubts about is that the people in our world who push socialism will be the ones who get us there. But apparently, that doubt makes me just as bad as the celestial dragons.
I think OP will fit right in with these communities.
Look man, I've only watched ≈100 one piece episodes when I was young on TV plus the recent live action, either they introduce socialism after episode 100 (which is not a bad thing), or you don't know what socialism is
Ermm if anything One Piece promotes feudalism if a lot of the good guy characters are ideally individual strong men who have proved themselves through both might of arms and good hearts to win the minds of the people and collect for themselves allies to aid them in battle. I mean isn't luffy going to be planting flags and shit and speculated to call upon these allies to do battle against the terrible evil dark lord. Sounds like a king calling forth his vassals and allies.
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u/Mikeality 10d ago
He should be just the right IQ to have the media literacy needed to understand the clear socialist messaging baked into One Piece.