
like i said, you will be perfectly fine living with linear thinking. also, idk why everyone seems to assume that engaging with something you disagree with automatically means interacting with the worst of the worst?? Im just saying, engaging with the other side can strengthen your knowledge in your own opinion and youll learn how to argue it better🤷🏽♀️
If I say “people deserve not to have their human rights violated”and someone disagrees, I am engaging with the worst of the worst. Sure, if they regurgitate liberal/right wing talking points without knowing what they mean, I can engage with them. But when someone is staunchly anti-human, it’s time for me to accept that there’s nothing I can do and cut ties for my own sanity.
There’s a famous quote: “how can you hate me if you don’t understand me”. I try to approach people with the opposite opinion or views as me. But if they’re just spouting the same msm propaganda (from either side) and are clearly uninformed I just tune them out. Anyone who parrots a viewpoint/talking point can’t adequately explain why they hold it without defaulting to “idk I just believe it”. And Ive run out of energy to change individual’s hearts and minds
I say this, and this is why: it is very rare to find someone who will have an open and honest conversation with you. Most political arguments are not won with logic, they are won with emotions. When you point out the flaws in someone’s thinking, it is perceived as an attack on their person. This strengthens the idea instead of weakening it in a phenomenon known as the Backfire Effect
It is best, then, to cut people out of your life whose minds will not be changed and focus on persuading those who are more politically unaware. As soon as someone entrenches themselves in racist, zionist, or homophobic beliefs, that is no longer something I can alter with conversation.