Know someone who was just wrong about COVID? to the point you cut them off? see if you can talk to them again.
That person you un-followed because they're so blind about $WAR and totally on the wrong side? Perhaps realize that neither of you are actually involved int hat war, and you share many things that are totally unrelated to it, too. You can still talk about those things.
Basically embrace "we can agree to disagree" and explore all of those areas of dialogue other than the things you find contentious with someone.
It can be done. It doesn't "pollute your mind with both-sideism" or anything like that. People used to consider it a worthy habit, even.
Know someone who was just wrong about COVID? to the point you cut them off? see if you can talk to them again.
I knew someone like that. I cut him off (just in that conversation, not the whole relationship). Turns out that, as we learned more about COVID, he was not completely wrong like I thought he was.
But I can't talk to him again. He was my father, and he died last year.
No, you'll just be another keyboard warrior of the internet operating in an echo chamber
Do it IRL with people whom you have rapport with
I've been doing something like "If America is to be great again... what did it do when it was great? What would happen if the US slinks away into isolationism? Who would fill that power vacuum? (hint, China)... related arguments for Ukraine, but also it's very cheap comparatively"
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Know someone who was just wrong about COVID? to the point you cut them off? see if you can talk to them again.
That person you un-followed because they're so blind about $WAR and totally on the wrong side? Perhaps realize that neither of you are actually involved int hat war, and you share many things that are totally unrelated to it, too. You can still talk about those things.
Basically embrace "we can agree to disagree" and explore all of those areas of dialogue other than the things you find contentious with someone.
It can be done. It doesn't "pollute your mind with both-sideism" or anything like that. People used to consider it a worthy habit, even.
I knew someone like that. I cut him off (just in that conversation, not the whole relationship). Turns out that, as we learned more about COVID, he was not completely wrong like I thought he was.
But I can't talk to him again. He was my father, and he died last year.
Very good suggestions. Do you think it would be worth doing this on say, the comments at foxnews.com?
No, you'll just be another keyboard warrior of the internet operating in an echo chamber
Do it IRL with people whom you have rapport with
I've been doing something like "If America is to be great again... what did it do when it was great? What would happen if the US slinks away into isolationism? Who would fill that power vacuum? (hint, China)... related arguments for Ukraine, but also it's very cheap comparatively"
The MAGA whataboutism is extreme (pun intended)
Yes.
I'm a right wing heretic who has been doing that sort of thing here since 2019.