I suspect a conservative might believe that the “gay lifestyle” kills people through AIDS, and probably believe trans people are groomed and their suicides are a result of that, so they might view LGBTQ+ rights as leading to deaths, if I had to guess
Yeah. And they probably view guns as a way of protecting children, too.
I see a lot of posts that just completely don’t understand the conservative mindset at all, and imagine that explaining things to them like one would explain things to a leftist is going to work. There’s just too much inferential distance for memes like this. Sigh :/
you get it exactly, this kind of meme, if anything, works against our political goals, by re-affirming conservatives in their mindset and alienating them by failing to provide a rhetorical “bridge” that allows them to see things differently
like you say, expecting them to respond as though they already agree with you (and as if you can just shame them into agreement) is entirely the wrong approach
I suspect a conservative might believe that the “gay lifestyle” kills people through AIDS, and probably believe trans people are groomed and their suicides are a result of that, so they might view LGBTQ+ rights as leading to deaths, if I had to guess
Yeah. And they probably view guns as a way of protecting children, too.
I see a lot of posts that just completely don’t understand the conservative mindset at all, and imagine that explaining things to them like one would explain things to a leftist is going to work. There’s just too much inferential distance for memes like this. Sigh :/
you get it exactly, this kind of meme, if anything, works against our political goals, by re-affirming conservatives in their mindset and alienating them by failing to provide a rhetorical “bridge” that allows them to see things differently
like you say, expecting them to respond as though they already agree with you (and as if you can just shame them into agreement) is entirely the wrong approach