How do you deal with people who are extremist on either side of the covid debate?

[PurpleTree]

17 hours ago, Opo said:

Hmm, first time hearing this. 

Could you show an example? 

from another topic

 

Qanon, Anti-Vaxxers, and Trumpists are basically the Nazis of our time, relatively speaking.
It's just that society has advanced to the point where the worst most deluded people of civilized first-world society don't seem so bad when you compare them to actual WWII-era Nazis. It's all a matter of perspective.

 

 

[PurpleTree]

1 minute ago, Opo said:

So if you were around nazis you would start shitting on jews just to avoid a conflict? 

And if you didn't care you wouldn't post about it on the internet. 

i care about making society less divisive

i don't care about joining a tribe in this conflict and then go to war with the other tribe

[Opo]

6 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

i care about making society less divisive

i don't care about joining a tribe in this conflict and then go to war with the other tribe

So if I just start screaming you will come to my side to calm me down? 

[Opo]

9 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

Bug. 

Qanon, Anti-Vaxxers, and Trumpists are basically the Nazis of our time, relatively speaking.
It's just that society has advanced to the point where the worst most deluded people of civilized first-world society don't seem so bad when you compare them to actual WWII-era Nazis. It's all a matter of perspective.

This is clearly a more nuanced position than the antivaxxers are nazis. 

But if you hear the word nazi and get so triggered that you don't see the rest you might be in a tribe. 

[PurpleTree]

3 minutes ago, Opo said:

So if I just start screaming you will come to my side to calm me down? 

both sides are just screaming imo

13 minutes ago, Opo said:

So if you were around nazis you would start shitting on jews just to avoid a conflict? 

Also i don't know how i would have reacted around nazis (people seem to love that word on this forum)  

and you don't know how you would have reacted either

[PurpleTree]

1 minute ago, Opo said:

But if you hear the word nazi and get so triggered that you don't see the rest you might be in a tribe. 

yea maybe i'm in the center tribe, who's trying to avoid conflict 

 

also maybe avoiding conflict is wrong, i'm open to that possibility, maybe we need it to get much worse with bloodshed and all before society can heal.

[Opo]

15 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

and you don't know how you would have reacted either

I've been around them and they were chill. 

Probably because politics didn't come up. 

[PurpleTree]

3 minutes ago, Opo said:

I've been around them and they were chill. 

Probably because politics didn't come up. 

i mean if you lived in the third reich during the nazi era.

if you would have ratted out jews to save yourself and your family nobody knows.

maybe you would have even thought exterminating the jews is a good thing

or maybe you would have been a schindler

Edited September 15, 2021 by PurpleTree

[DieFree]

My mom only took the vaccine when our neighbor, a lady she liked, took it. If vaccines aren't being taken in some parts of the country, we should identify who is well liked in that part and get them to take it publicly.