If you could, how would you deprogram an extreme liberal?
If you could, how would you deprogram an extreme liberal?
How would you approach persuading a far extreme liberal toward center? What would you set as a realistic goal for a productive discourse? Would it be better attempt to do so in person rather than online?
Might be a good idea to define what you consider an "extreme liberal". Nowadays, an extreme liberal can often times be used as a label for people advocating for human rights and calling out the bad faith actors while a moderate is someone who says "Hold on, let's hear out why these people are ethnically cleansing a population. Maybe they make good points".
In other threads on this platform I've been called an "Extreme liberal" for wanting free lunch for schoolchildren. So, I think the title is just kind of applied to "anyone who disagrees with me"
Maybe try advocating for free lunch for white kids only in the future? Makes you seem more reasonable.
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Well, that obviously calls for deprogramming. All the commercials this month inform me you are a radical socialist trying to feed children who don’t deserve it. I think the correct answer is to throw them in labor camps instead so they can earn bread and water. Serves them right for being born poor.
How are you defining "far extreme liberal"?
Someone who cares about others. It's a terrible affliction to go through life like that.
I think privatising social security is a terrible idea and medicare for all is a good idea. So I'm basically a communist.
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Anyone who isn't in a cult worshipping one of the most overtly corrupt con men the world has ever seen.
I think giving an example of an extreme liberal would help answer the question. Did you have some public figure in mind? If not, what are some examples of their beliefs that you’re wanting to push them to the center on?
deprogram an extreme liberal
Read Das Kapital to them
towards center
They're already in the "center"
OP asked the same question about extreme conservatives yesterday but it's not the same question, and doesn't have the same answers. Much of the right has gone further right, then looks at the left and says "they are farther away than they used to be"
"Deprogramming" makes sense in the sense for the far right because there is a lot of misinformation and fake news and outrage bait and all that kind of stuff. Getting people out of those trappings is good because it allows them to see how things really are, rather than what people want them to think.
That isn't really a problem with the left. I mean, I'm sure you could find some extreme subreddit somewhere where people want to bring out the guillotine to kill all capitalists or cut everyone's genitals off in the name of gender equality... But ultimately they're much rarer than the equivalent alt right spaces.
Extreme conservatives are very common and an existential threat to many groups. Extreme liberals are a mild curiosity that need to go out and touch grass.
That should hopefully explain the votes, saying that you need to deprogram "extreme liberals" brings up questions about what you actually mean by "extreme liberal" given that it really isn't that big an issue in society.
... Or maybe all this is just my biases.
It's just your biases.
That isn’t really a problem with the left
Of course it is. Since the terms left and right were invented (during the French revolution), left-wing extremism has been as much a problem as the right-wing variety. The ideology of equality and fraternity is a story of bloody revolutions, purges, famines, even genocides. Depending on definitions, the body count of left-wingery is arguably even higher than that of fascism.
Of course, what Americans call an "extreme liberal" (i.e. a woke progressive rather than a liberal) is not typically a murderous Stalinist. But the habit of fetishizing abstract ideas, and seeing everything in terms of group power struggles, and the obsession with ideological purity - I hardly need to cite examples, at least from abroad we can see that these things are alive and well in America and having bad outcomes.
Not as bad as the opposite extreme though, on that I will agree.
Didn't you post a somewhat opposite yesterday using "Republican"?
Those two terms aren't even close to equivalent in this context.
You need to define what you mean, a LOT. At least start with equivalent labels.
I bet this is going to be some sort of gotcha about how people didn't feel the need to "deprogram an extremist liberal", so obviously everyone is out to get the poor poor conservatives who just want to be vile in peace
The title may be edited, idk, but the other post you're referring to says "conservative" today
Edit:Looking at the profile, the wording of both posts are identical, except "conservative" is swapped for "liberal"
Firstly, I would say, hey, I respect that you don't think people should die hungry in the streets. Yup, that's about it.
Hey I notice you have empathy for others. What can we do to get rid of that?
I wouldn't.
In fact, I would try to deprogram anyone who thinks anyone should.
hear, hear
Very simple. You just need to explain how guys like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have clearly always had all the best ideas and should be given completely free reign to do anything they want with our country, with no checks whatsoever, for however long they want. This will clearly make all of our lives much, much better in every way.
Deprogram them from what, exactly? From not being hateful little shits that wanna get rid of everything and everyone that isn't exactly like them?
Wow I did not interpret the term "liberal" at all in the same way that you have. Liberalism as an ideology is centrist at best, right of center at worst if you consider the overton window in developed nations other than the US.
Objectifying people is never a good look.
You can’t go wrong just asking questions.
Make them live in Downton Abbey
You don't. Just let life do it for you.
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” -- G. Michael Hopf
Accept them. Understand them and what they say and why. Have fun and tell a joke they'll like. Let go of trying to change them and let it happen naturally over time.
When I encounter an extreme right or left person, I back away slowly and avoid eye contact.
Obviously there are people on the fringes of every ideology. Maybe showing that those people are not helpful to 'the cause' and can instead be much more effective if they're willing to work with others closer to the middle?
Interesting to contrast the votes on this with the other thread about conservatives.
No problem with extremists as long as they're our extremists.
I have yet to meet an extreme liberal that wanted to declare one of my children inferior to other humans.
I can't say the same about conservatives.
I think most parents will agree that they are looking out for their kids first, and until your platform respects all of my children like they were your own, it gets NO support from me.
Far left extremism - ending homelessness by taking money from the rich
Far right extremism - invading a capitol building to block vote counts
Far right extremism - ending homelessness by throwing them in jail and forcing them to work for the rich at below minimum wage
SEE?!?! BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE!!
Far left extremism - silencing all opposition, one party, everyone is equal (except those who are more equal of course), corruption, executions, burning of books, and much more.
If it sounds very similar to right wing extremism, congrats, you've discovered a cool fact: all extremism is bad.
If you think I'm pulling it out of my ass, those things happened in my country when we were under Soviet communist occupation. Also extreme poverty, never seen before or after their occupation.
Except the "other side" from conservatism would usually be progressivism. Maybe this is my US bias showing, but all mainline political thought is based on liberalism here: it's the nonliberals who are the extremists, whether they're progressive or regressive in their authoritarianism.
Did we fail the test because we're wrong, or was the answer sheet wrong? Maybe we say conservatives are bad not because of some hidden bias but because conservatives are bad.
I'm not a huge fan of liberals either but anyone with a brain can see that modern conservatives are anti-intellectual hate cult retards who think that truth is dictated by consensus and proclamation, and they deserve to be as unpopular and ridiculed as they are because they had decades to prove that their punitive ideological approach works and they failed horribly.