• snooggums@midwest.social
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    4 months ago

    “Keep doing the counterproductive thing” is a terrible argument.

    Acknowledging their change is fine. Celebrating it and plastering it on the news gives reasonable people false hope that most conservatives can be reasoned with when it is apparent conservstives have a tiny chance to change when it happens to them directly.

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      4 months ago

      Tell me if I wrong but if you show that won’t there also be a positive effect for people who need that last bit of push to finally see it?

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        4 months ago

        You are thinking of reasonable people.

        Only changing when it personally affects them is confirmation that positive reinforcement doeson’t work on bigots. Shame barely kept them from being publicly shitty for a couple of decades, but that was more than positive reinforcement.