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”?
Anyone who isn’t in a cult worshipping one of the most overtly corrupt con men the world has ever seen.
deprogram an extreme liberal
Read Das Kapital to them
towards center
They’re already in the “center”
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?
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”
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’m curious as to why someone would want to “deprogram” progresivism. Seems like it would be for the worse.
Eugenics and prohibition were both progressive social movements.
Progressive doesn’t necessarily mean good.
Interesting point.
Haven’t you heard about how the immigrants are shutting down the labor unions and making it rain when you have plans?!?
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.
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.
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.
Great, but that’s not what republicans mean when they say “extremist liberal.” Instead they have coopted the term “extremist” so it no longer means anything, except what they want it to, when they want it to.
That’s what extremists do, gaslight, obstruct and project. It’s all 101 level stuff.
I’m not disagreeing with you, I just really hate when people who know extreme left just from the internet claim how awesome it is. It’s not, there’s really few differences between extreme left and extreme right.
you’re describing authoritarianism, not leftism. We want to feed the hungry, care for the poor/sick/elderly, and give every person the opportunity to live happily with dignity. None of that has anything to do with your strawman.
Did you miss like half of the premise? Or the keyword extreme?
Your strawman can be broken down very easily when you leave out half the original points.
Is that actually far left extremism, or just fascism with a misleading name tag?
Far left extremism. Soviets wanted to create utopia where everyone is equal, except the leaders of course. That’s not gonna change. And then it cascades into straight up dictatorship.
Still sounds like fascism.
Indeed it does. That was my whole point.
If someone hands you a bowl of shit and tells you it’s chocolate pudding, that doesn’t make actual chocolate pudding shitty.
But, I can definitely understand being skeptical of chocolate pudding after eating a bowl of shit.
At the very least I guess we can both agree that we need to check our pudding for pieces of shit before we dive right in.
Since when are soviets extreme liberals?
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.
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.
You can’t go wrong just asking questions.
Make them live in Downton Abbey
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?
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