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My view is transracial isn’t valid and this person is trying to dogwhistle. I’ve already blocked this person, and now they’re going after my friend saying my friend is transphobic because they disagreed with them about transracial being a thing (they’re purposefully leaving the context out so my friend looks transphobic when what my friend really said was transgender is valid but transracial isn’t)
If you debate people and onlookers find themselves agreeing more with the other guy than they were at the start, the answer is to re-evaluate your arguments. When you go to social shaming, while you may get people to shut up, you also solidify those people against you. You blocked off the mechanism for those onlookers to have their mind changed and created resentment for the social cost you impose on them.
Isn’t it weird how when you talk to someone online they generally won’t go against the grain, yet Trump now won a second term? And not only that, but he won the popular vote this time around with 14,317,752 more votes than he got the first time around.
That is what social shaming does. Instead of trying to convince people, you force them against you.
Exactly, and something that is entirely missed by the left is that you don’t need to “win” the argument. Just have fun. You can make them look silly by showing their absurdity by just joking with their dumb arguments. Jon Stewart is great at this. He doesn’t need a whole segment logically destroying every point in a monotone diatribe. He throws up video of a Republican saying one thing and then doing the complete opposite then cuts to him laughing and shrugging. The viewer comes to their own opinion. It’s entertaining. That’s the game. People online on the left ignore that game.