I saw a comment on twitter form a non trump supporter responding to how sweet he was under a tweet with a clip of him responding to RBG's death. And all the comments were like yeah why do you think he has so many followers? So i went to reddit to scroll through /politics subreddit....and oh my good God. They literally and truly believe all trump supporters are racist, clan members who are idiot insurrections and they say the capitol attack was SO VIOLENT and that Trump should be on death row. They also called all Trump supporters faux christians. I'm literally not exaggerating that is like the basis for all of their posts. And almost all of the posts have to do with Trump. It's kinda disheartening. Not for me like I guess i kinda feel bad for them but mostly soo frustrated. I think my new "trolling" is going to be pretending like i'm a democrat on these forums and try to camouflage myself but just dropping tiny truth bombs and see how it goes. I feel like it's our responsibility to maturely wake these people up. It's literally like living in two different worlds going through that place.
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You'll soon find yourself exhausted and stop. There's a reason why few bother to try. They find out very quickly these people have serious issues at the foundation of their world view.
Let me save you some time. You can't build a bridge this large or deep.
Lack of accountability - they genuinely do not understand even the meaning of the word responsibility, they lack self-awareness so they can not begin to tell themselves that they've been lied to.
Biological - they have quite literally got their amygdalas on fire all day everyday - they're hijacked, that's not a euphemism or metaphor. They're quite literally under mind control - their emotions dictate what is real, which leads us to
Etymology - they genuinely believe you can not KNOW something. This has become a little more mainstream with notions such as "whiteness" being "multiracial", that is to say - they're beginning to admit that they don't mean to refer to race when they say white people are the bad guys. They're referring to people that genuinely believe in an objective reality and hold people accountable to it's rigor - despite what they might feel.
See the disconnect?
Moral relativism - this is the biggy. And it ties into their lack of intellectual integrity obviously, but more sinisterly - they ultimately believe there is no right and wrong. If somehow you managed to find someone in the crowd there that was there by accident - this would still be their hangup.
Sorry tldr - just... Don't bother.
No pearls before swine.
You mean not etymology but Epistemology : theories of how we know what we claim to know.
But it is a good point.
Many people most concretely experience this in their university educations or workplaces. We all can see how Mr X thinks like a doctor, lawyer, engineer, policeman, whatever. Their worldview, what they notice, how they categorize, test, what they value, their cognitive and vocational tools and experimental and practical methods, all of the things that they are indoctrinated in by their studies and profession become elements of their day to day epistemology.
People who study anthropology, sociology, education, , economics, literature, and - to a lesser degree - psychology and history are being trained in very weak epistemologies.
Oh yeah good catch haha damn phones.