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SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 day agoI agree, but using language like “inbred hicks” is counterproductive if you want their side to start seeing ours as the voice of reason. I’m no less angry, disgusted, frustrated, etc., but try not to reinforce their brainwashing regarding our side.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“We have to coddle the dumbest people in society until they choose to make the correct choice that they are responsible for making, but if we coddle them then they feel validated and never like the idiot they are, so they will never change”
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 day ago
I never said coddle them. You just don’t need to give them more reason to dig in their heels. You can tell them they’re wrong in what they’re supporting without the ad hominem attacks.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There isn’t a way to tell a Nazi they are wrong without challenging their beleifs.
There isn’t going to be a “nice way” to convert fascists into reasonable people.
If they cared about other human beings, OR cared about understanding the world around them, they wouldn’t have fallen down this easily avoidable pitfall
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 23 hours ago
Your assumption is they’re all Nazis. Many are guilty merely by association, and are currently conflicted between deeply-ingrained loyalty programming and knowing that shit ain’t quite right here. It’s those fighting with their conscious that can be won over IF you don’t antagonize them by being too angry to help them see the light.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
You must understand that people in deep red states have had structural barriers to their education purposefully placed there which make it difficult to grasp issues that require abstract critical thinking. This is not me looking down my nose, this is a fact.
This is made doubly difficult it’s not about what’s actually happening in their day to day that determines how they vote, Republicans have created an identity and entrenched it with their sense of self, making an attack on the ideology an attack on your their place in the world.
Does that make them right? Absolutely not, but in order to cure we must first understand.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do we blame the regular German citizens who embraced Nazism for embracing Nazism.
I get it, but there isn’t a way to educate the willfully ignorant.
You just have to let these people know they are on a path twoards killing their neighbors and you are ready to fight and kill them in defense if necessary.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m not saying they have a right to be like that, I’m saying you’re wrong about the cause.