Someone shared this with me earlier today, and it's such a perfect example of the type of victim blaming crap marginalized groups have to hear all the time from this type of privileged "former" conservative
People who blame leftists and marginalized groups for their own atrocious choices are the worst
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 23 pts · 1y
How DO you convert rightwingers?
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 27 pts · 1y
One of the things I've seen is normalization of their "enemies". Seeing trans people, muslims, jews, foreigners, feminists being just normal people.
In the right wing bubble all feminists are "crazy" so when they meet people that just are, then that can crack the worldview.
Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 1y
Unfortunately to a lot of right wing people ive talked to im just "one of the good ones", which obviously is meaningless when theyre trying to erase our existence.
Some folks are swayed by just being around a real queer person with feelings and emotions though, instead of just being a statistic to bash on the tv screen
Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
Oh yea, they need to actually meet several 🥲
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
This is also true, and I've seen it happen. The important thing to remember unlike Steve Bootlicker up there is the burden is not ever on us to change them, and it is never our fault they are conservatives, no matter what we do.
tama@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Curious how he’s gotten termed Steve bootlicker. I haven’t seen content in a bit and used to watch some TikTok’s relating to education and politics in Alberta for sure.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
I don't know who he is. I'm just calling him that based on this particular post. For all I know, he might be a fine person who just had a bad take. I just loathe the gaslighting about "mean leftists made me conservative"
I know some anarchists from Alberta, but they've never mentioned him.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
If you want a real chance; you have to convince them that their real enemies are the billionaires who are lying to them. They hate the oligarchy just as much as we do, they just think that the terrible things being done to them by our oligarchs are actually the fault of immigrants or trans people.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I don't; that's not how minds change. I argue with them a lot and maybe over years they'll get it and credit themselves. Nobody ever says "gee that's a logical argument so I agree with you now."
WadeTheWizard@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone MOD · 5 pts · 1y
It's gross and inappropriate to blame oppressed people in any way for the choices of their oppressors. It's even worse to do so through tasteless sarcasm.
You can return to this community if you change your view about this.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1y
Start with discussing empathy. without that the rest won't happen.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -4 pts · 1y
I'm not an evangelist and it's not my place to persuade them that other people deserve equity. Make it impossible for them to exist openly as Nazis in society.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -4 pts · 1y
Also, this liberal clearly didn't "convert" or he'd be taking personal accountability and asking for forgiveness instead of placing some of the blame on his victims
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Personal accountability and forgiveness for what? What did this guy do to which victims?
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Says right there he was a conservative
KarfiolosHus@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y