My suspicion is that the months and months Scott spent reassuring "Gray Tribe" and "Red Tribe" people in "Blue Tribe Enemy Territory" that they weren't terrible people and their resentments and insecurities were valid and all that shit did far far more than that one article
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
The big moment where you turn around and pull a judo maneuver and "spend the capital you've accrued" does not work You can't spend months befriending a Nazi telling them being a Nazi is not so bad and then suddenly go "Ah HA, the big reveal is that it IS bad"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Jesus fuck like I'm not on the Internet and I haven't seen this corny-ass story a million times "And then I looked my friend Hans in the eye and said 'Those Jews you talk so much about... I am one of them' And silently, he began to weep" Gag me
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
This particular article is especially garbage because HE IS ON THEIR SIDE He AGREES that the woke cancelation mobs of raving SJWs are about to tear apart the Republic and he's trying to argue Trump is a BAD STRATEGY for opposing them
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
That's how you persuade a Republican that Trump is bad--explain that he's a bad way to make the country great. Do you know how persuasion works? You understand what the person you're trying to persuade wants and then show them how to get it.
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
What I understand about persuasion is that it mostly doesn't work
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
For instance, you are trying to use this technique on me right now and miserably failing, because we can all tell that you are very clumsily trying to imitate someone who shares my values without actually understanding what they are
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
I'm not trying to persuade you, I'm trying to persuade others who are reading the thread. People most likely not participating in the conversation because they're on the fence
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Replying to @PlzBeSensible @iridienne and
Yeah, that's also the only reason I have these conversations, and the way to do that is to appeal to the values I actually share with them, by using someone like you as a negative example to hold in contempt and disgust
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Replying to @arthur_affect @iridienne and
So you persuasion techniques are explicitly and openly based on dehumanizing your interlocutor?
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Yeah the kids these days call it a "dunk", it's a basketball metaphor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
And specifically the purpose of ridicule is to define the bounds of acceptable behavior to everyone else, not convince the person who you are ridiculing of something
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