Think about something like my content. If I try to understand how a western seperatism, or conservative, or fascist thinks, that helps me to better educate. To address the points they'd automatically bring up. It improves my practice. Doesn't mean I buy them dinner. It means I try to think.
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Yes and that's a position I don't really understand :/
Do you agree that the point of understanding individuals is to be more efficient at changing their opinion ?
If yes, isn't it engaging (even if indirectly) with them ?
Or do you see other values in understanding fascists ?
Do you agree that the point of understanding individuals is to be more efficient at changing their opinion ?
If yes, isn't it engaging (even if indirectly) with them ?
Or do you see other values in understanding fascists ?
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You are angry because you aren’t represented > we should succeed.
You should be scared of people who are different > let’s ban them from public places and take their rights away.
No thinking required.
For what you are doing it's very important and you are good at it.
And I think it may be where the misunderstanding starts because for me you are describing an engagement.
As soon as you try convincing people you are engaging with them. So you need to understand them.
And maybe in the process help you understand them (sry for the arrogance) and the other way around.
I just opened my bluesky and saw you angry at people that generally like you.
Anyway, I don't even think you are talking about them in the first place. It's more about Westerner conservative..
You also won't move someone on the far-right to the far-left. You might help them take some baby steps towards more center-right views though.
It's a challenge translating ideas like class consciousness and intersectional feminism into language they can understand. But it can be done.