HonsouNov 26, 2016
I think people are desperately trying to find easy boogeymen for this election that are easily hateable and at the same time allow themselves not to change the way they think at the same time. A horde of former PUA's who secretly want to take over America fit that bill
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@honsou can't it be both
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@tesseraconteur The only issue is that the people they are describing: White middle class male, raised by feminist mother single mother and went to good schools, are like 10 people
Nov 26, 2016 at 1:50amWeb
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@honsou true. people keep wanting to paint a picture in their head of what "They" look like & it leads to misinformed thinking. but some of the details they describe resonate with my own observations

we have generations of people who were told that what they said was bad but not why, & in leaving them uninformed we left them to grow lonely & resentful

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@tesseraconteur @honsou that second 'paragraph' is spot on, i think! on a large scale, we have to get much better at talking with people in ways that help them understand rather than ways that tell them we want nothing to do with them, which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as they end up being welcomed in and radicalized by people spreading ideas antithetical to our existence

(is it really a paragraph if it's just a sentence? whatever)

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@honsou @tesseraconteur well, i wouldn't expect every detail to apply to everyone, but i get your point. either way, the conclusion is the same, i think: we can't effectively change what the other side is doing, so we just need to do better ourselves to reach people in the middle before they're courted by our enemies