If you are too far removed from someone's views, then you not only do not persuade, you probably even push them in the wrong direction.

Even if you are removed, having the ability to understand their position well enough to emulate being far closer to it while in conversation is the biggest key.

As such, like I often preach to our Impy boy, I strive to have a deep understanding of not just feminist literature but the psychology and emotions that bring someone to that position, and even just women in general. Which, given my ideological crusade is mostly anti-feminist and misogynistic, puts me in the strongest place to reach people who believe such and slowly pull them closer to my side.

And once you are in their circle as "someone who gets it" and "likeable, maybe attractive even" then you can get away with convincing them of all sorts of things antithetical to their ideological bend. Its why "Right Wing Grifters" are such a big problem that I chimp out about constantly, because I can see that game being played in action on people who can't fathom someone like Rekeita or Peterson or Candace Owens might be playing them towards a long term division*.

If you are too far removed from someone's views, then you not only do not persuade, you probably even push them in the wrong direction.

Even if you are removed, having the ability to understand their position well enough to emulate being far closer to it while in conversation is the biggest key.

As such, like I often preach to our Impy boy, I strive to have a deep understanding of not just feminist literature but the psychology and emotions that bring someone to that position, and even just women in general. Which, given my ideological crusade is mostly anti-feminist and misogynistic, puts me in the strongest place to reach people who believe such and slowly pull them closer to my side.

And once you are in their circle as "someone who gets it" and "likeable, maybe attractive even" then you can get away with convincing them of all sorts of things antithetical to their ideological bend. Its why "Right Wing Grifters" are such a big problem that I chimp out about constantly, because I can see that game being played in action on people who can't fathom someone like Rekeita or Peterson or Candace Owens might be playing them towards a long term goal.