Which we should see as an excellent radicalization and growth opportunity!
It can be exhausting explaining ourselves again and again, always met with the same accusations and assumptions born from the mythos spun by our enemies.
However, we must remember these people are people, and many people change their minds given enough information, delivered with firm respect. For every belligerent person who appears like they wouldn’t change their mind for anything, there are 10 people quietly lurking who are more on-the-fence. Even those who regurgitate insults and contempt may change their mind when the stars align!
These people are not our enemies, they are victims to the greatest campaign of dishonesty in human history! It is our duty to draw out the poison and deliver the medicine!
I know many comrades here have very difficult lives and do not have the patience or energy to deal with such people. Please do not exhaust yourself interacting with liberals, and allow comrades with more energy to deal with them.
Radicalizing online is not the end-all be-all, but at this point in the psychological war for those within the Anglosphere, every victory is invaluable!!!
Good point. I’ve probably been too short and snarky with them.
It’s just frustrating to explain something only for them to deliberately ignore your argument in favour of pretending you just said something “uncivil” so they can dismiss you. Especially if American politics is involved (or Trump or Putin, my god, it’s like their brains just short circuit when someone mentions “Orange man.”
A primer on how to deal with libs would be extremely helpful. I can talk to people in person fine, but I just have no clue how to reach Americans, it’s like their national pastimes are arrogance and ignorance.
I can say from a lot of experience that you have to swallow a lot of well-justified irritation. You have to be prepared for childish insults, wildly bad faith assumptions, bratty refusal to engage with you like how a toddler refuses to eat vegetables. They will call you a Nazi and you will get ratioed. If you can accept this and still play the “bigger person,” though, sometimes magic happens, and when it does it’s often outside of your line of sight; victories in radicalization are often invisible to us.
It’s difficult to get someone to reject something they’re actively profiting from, and the west profited from the abuses of capital for decades. That’s only slowly changing…