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blomba t1_iv0l9i4 wrote

Reply to comment by ConfusedObserver0 in How to have better arguments by fchung

Calling people with different political views anti intellectual or "stupid" is a surefire way to change minds

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ConfusedObserver0 t1_iv0tuio wrote

You have to be honest with what your dealing with or your not going to even convince yourself. I’ve lived it my whole life and had to deprogrammed from the shallow side of it. I could have been a toothless tweeker but I chose another route.

And you don’t have to say it to their faces. Haha. When it’s your fiends, family and most everyone you’ve ever grown up with though… It’s hard admitting this in the first place.

But my point was to offer up the type of interaction I’ve dealt with as examples of really stubborn and hard headed people that prefer not to learn about something but to vent about topics they know nothing of

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amazin_raisin99 t1_iv2jlmu wrote

Have you considered that you may have been around some of the many people who aren't interested in being intellectual or logically consistent because they don't care, and that arguing with the lowest common denominator version of a particular ideology has biased you against it as a whole? I assure you that if you try you can find equally anti-intellectual people who disagree on everything with the ones you're talking about.

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