I have had the experience of encountering a lot of stubborn people in my life. Enough so that I understand where defensiveness comes from and often when a person is about to dig in as a matter of self preservation. I also have experience with the filter bubble. The other day a kid of mine made a comment about how I have the power to ignore things I don’t want to see, basically saying that the reason they keep putting stuff out is because I keep talking about it. That latter part is bullcrap to a large degree–They keep putting stuff out because people keep talking about it, and if those people are part of a similar algorithm, it will keep hitting my algorithm until I figure out how to make it stop. I also think it may have something to do with the fact of disliking a certain thing and that thing keeps popping up in order to further polarize me and push me towards “anti” behaviors. All of this is to say, stop telling people “You voted for this!” because most of them did not in fact vote for any of this.
The other day this guy said that our ICE is acting like the Gestapo and he didn’t believe we would end up like this…
I believe him. I do, because he openly expressed his beliefs in some of what Trump was saying and appeared to have zero understanding of the rational arguments people from the other side were saying. Why would he? His algorithm only shows him the wildest stuff and the stuff he already believes or is starting to believe. Assuming that he has the mindset or even the intelligence to predict what could possibly go wrong in this scenario is foolish. We cannot make him into someone or something he never actually was, which is an intelligent forward thinking, balanced, and highly rationally individual. He’s not that guy. He’s a stand up comic turned Fear Factor host turned MMA commentator turned podcaster. Come on, folks. He’s not Obama. He is of above-average IQ score (127) but that fails to account for a lot of things…
Here’s the main thing: What we ingest is what we put out. Most of the people (I believe) who voted for Trump are innundated with nonsense about the Great Replacement theory and feel like they are losing their power. They are not voting for people to be murdered in the streets, but when you repeatedly tell them they are, you’re pushing them further and further away from rational thinking. The goal here is to bring us all back together, not to make it so the 56% of Americans who are white continue to fear the 44% who aren’t. Let’s come together and recognize that mistakes were made and instead of blaming, work to fix the problems we all have contributed to creating.