Pretend you have one hour to convince a random normie that the mainstream media is propaganda rather than a collection of well-meaning, objective journalists who sometimes get it wrong but overall try to deliver fair and accurate reporting.
If you fail, you die.
What's your approach?
It's a stupid hypothetical for several reasons but I'm very interested in this topic and I'm curious to hear your thoughts, so I'll ask for a pass on the overly dramatic scenario.
I'm guessing the most common response will be, "It won't work no matter what you do", and fwiw I think that's correct. But for the small group who can be reasoned with, what do you think is the optimal approach?
Wise. A lot of people have some sort of emotional commitment to left or right. They will sooner switch their positions 180 degrees than keep their positions and move from left to right, or vice versa. In my lifetime, I've seen the mainstream left go from pro-Wall Street, anti-war, pro-free speech to the exact opposite, and pretty much the inverse move from the right.
I also encounter a lot of people who, if you look at their political commitments, seem far-left, and hate the Orange Man, but if you look at their actual positions, don't like war, immigration or LGBTP. If you force them to choose between their positions and their politics they'll choose their politics. But if you gentle nudge them and make them confront their contradictions on their own... while I can't say that I have tried, I think that would at least be less certain to fail.
May be an American thing, where this is far more polarized than in Europe. Covid is not exactly a subject here, but I do intend to bring up all the false information pushed with absolute certainty by politicians, media and so called scientists... not as proof of anything except that they can be wrong and often are.
May also be. I know people who are far to the left of your Democrats, who don't like the race/gender/LGBTP BS, and proactively ridicule it without me even bringing it up.
A lot of normies will not notice, because they really are colorblind.
This is rich coming from you. you're a bi man, who wishes to restrict LGBTQ rights. because... reasons. you're also an atheist. who believes anything bad humans have done through out history... is atheists fault, the non-religious. and we need religion to fix all that because, reasons... you yourself are a walking contradiction.
Oh shut the fuck up you racist, mixbreed hating piece of shit. no different than the goddamn nazi's on this site.
I have to support grooming?
Your arguments are so weak that you have to resort to things you made up.
Who said that? i'm also bi, and don't like what the LGBTQ group is doing. but your aim is to strip rights. and rightfully put all gays back in the closet... ya asshole. and we had a talk about how you think all of the worlds current problem is caused by atheists. and by going back to religion being everywhere. it'll stop the wokeness because you said only the woke were atheist. while the non-woke were religious.
Name those 'rights'.
Oh, backtracking already? You said all the problems in world history.