Good piece, even though highlighting Walter was really shooting fish in a barrel - he's an easy target, but it's good that you engaged with him because you introduced some ideas he may not forget as easily as he blocked you. And that's the thing to remember with these types: They may get mad, they may throw a tantrum and call you a trans…
Good piece, even though highlighting Walter was really shooting fish in a barrel - he's an easy target, but it's good that you engaged with him because you introduced some ideas he may not forget as easily as he blocked you. And that's the thing to remember with these types: They may get mad, they may throw a tantrum and call you a transracereligionculturespeciesvegetablephobe or something but you've introduced, or validated & perpetuated a message they've already heard before and rejected. You may or may not have planted the seed of critical thought, but you at least watered it and Walter may find himself one day resisting a stubborn little aster (a flower that symbolizes, among other things, *wisdom*) sprouting from his cranium, and yanking it out may only leave roots...to sprout again :)
We may not seemingly change others' minds, but we may contribute to it...and who needs the ego rub anyway that you did change a mind? :)
“ Good piece, even though highlighting Walter was really shooting fish in a barrel - he's an easy target”
Haha, I wasn’t picking on him, I’ve never heard of him before. But I posted his conversation precisely because he seemed reasonably intelligent until we got into the topic of gender ideology. It’s a pattern I’ve seen a few times with people, but not quite to that extent.
If I was only having these conversations for the ego boost of somebody telling me I changed their mind I’d have stopped long ago.
You sort of wonder if you've encountered another Pod Person. Someone who seems normal but then you realize you've encountered another person whose brain has been taken over by aliens. Perfectly rational, intelligent people who spout ridiculous nonsense and then point to Trump and QAnon as the 'real' nonsense-spouters.
I have been lucky enough to have been told once or twice by people that I changed their minds about something: feminism and gay rights, specifically. The women who changed her mind about feminism and I had many interesting conversations about feminism because she was curious and I wasn't didactic. The man who changed his mind about gay rights did so because he liked my partner and me, and we had exactly zero conversations about gay rights with him.
Good piece, even though highlighting Walter was really shooting fish in a barrel - he's an easy target, but it's good that you engaged with him because you introduced some ideas he may not forget as easily as he blocked you. And that's the thing to remember with these types: They may get mad, they may throw a tantrum and call you a transracereligionculturespeciesvegetablephobe or something but you've introduced, or validated & perpetuated a message they've already heard before and rejected. You may or may not have planted the seed of critical thought, but you at least watered it and Walter may find himself one day resisting a stubborn little aster (a flower that symbolizes, among other things, *wisdom*) sprouting from his cranium, and yanking it out may only leave roots...to sprout again :)
We may not seemingly change others' minds, but we may contribute to it...and who needs the ego rub anyway that you did change a mind? :)
“ Good piece, even though highlighting Walter was really shooting fish in a barrel - he's an easy target”
Haha, I wasn’t picking on him, I’ve never heard of him before. But I posted his conversation precisely because he seemed reasonably intelligent until we got into the topic of gender ideology. It’s a pattern I’ve seen a few times with people, but not quite to that extent.
If I was only having these conversations for the ego boost of somebody telling me I changed their mind I’d have stopped long ago.
You sort of wonder if you've encountered another Pod Person. Someone who seems normal but then you realize you've encountered another person whose brain has been taken over by aliens. Perfectly rational, intelligent people who spout ridiculous nonsense and then point to Trump and QAnon as the 'real' nonsense-spouters.
I have been lucky enough to have been told once or twice by people that I changed their minds about something: feminism and gay rights, specifically. The women who changed her mind about feminism and I had many interesting conversations about feminism because she was curious and I wasn't didactic. The man who changed his mind about gay rights did so because he liked my partner and me, and we had exactly zero conversations about gay rights with him.