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I don't have much experience with the MAGA folks. I know far fewer of them than the wokes. In my experience they are more likely to live and let live, at least
by dnissley 6y ago
I don't have much experience with the MAGA folks. I know far fewer of them than the wokes. In my experience they are more likely to live and let live, at least outside of their incessant facebook posts, but that could just be my bubble.
Since antiracism has essentially become a religion, I won't bother trying to persuade anyone who is obviously a true believer. You mostly can't convince someone out of their religion, since that's not what got them into the religion.
Others are more on the fence, and still have some semblance of sanity, and for them I try to set an example of someone who stridently cares about many of the issues they bring up, while trying to convince them that the woke approach to societal change is not only ineffective, but has done real harm to both actual flesh and blood people and our ability to talk things out and make sense of the world. I try to point them to resources that set a similar example -- not the outright anti-woke stuff, which will put them right off, but things like these that tread a middle path with elements that disrupt their tidy narrative of us vs them:
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-painful-path-to-unity https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-painful-path-to-unity
https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/woke-vs-anti-woke-asexual-bisexual https://philosophybear.substack.com/p/woke-vs-anti-woke-asex...
https://youtu.be/pHGt733yw3g https://youtu.be/pHGt733yw3g
- locopati 6y agoYes, I'm quite sure that people who would call themselves MAGA folks and voted for 45 are "more likely to live and let live" when they vote for a party who is actively working to take rights away from people (voting rights, rights to health care, rights to equal treatment under the law, etc).
- hokumguru 6y agoWonderful article. Thank you