As in, not known to you IRL.

I’ve occasionally brought it up before, but a while back in my reddit days I was in a thread where a “professional deprogrammer” had popped in and was talking about how to “deprogram” conservatives and get them to shift left in their views. It centered around restoring their sense of community and belonging with more balanced viewpoint folks IRL and away from their online echo chambers.

I asked them if they had any way to convert someone you encounter wholly online and they said that it was basically impossible, IRL you have a decent chance, but not online.

I’ve been thinking about that quite a bit, so now I’m curious if anybody here has actually gotten an online conservative to come to the dark side light side?

  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    I’ve just met more people. Friends coming out kind of forces you to re-evaluate the casual *phobia. I don’t think online can do it. You have to experience and learn yourself.

    • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You have a different kind of functional thought than other people. We can all be very different. I do not need connections like this to empathise. I am very functionally abstracted. This is one of the more rare types of people in terms of functional thought and psychology.