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.
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 23 hours 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 21 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.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
You are describing the internal conflict Nazis have
The citizens of Nazi Germany went through the same shit but we still called them Nazis because that’s what they are.