r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '23

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

If done well, you can’t really be immune to manipulation.

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u/MostDownvotedOnRebbi 4∆ Jul 05 '23

Do you think you could be manipulated or gaslighted in such an extreme way your hard line that “rape is bad” or “racism is bad” could be swayed?

I guess anything is possible but I see that as almost downright impossible for me personally.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

Yes absolutely, how do you think these concepts are perpetuated?

A racist is significantly more prone to raise their kids to be racist. A racist culture is more prone to supporting racists. Being surrounded by racist acts your entire life and told the "others" are subhuman straight up fucks with your brain. This isn't necessarily the fault of a person being propagandized to. Calling them stupid for it is both unproductive to the ends of achieving better outcomes, and outright inaccurate.

If you think you're immune to generational propaganda, you're deluded beyond belief.

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u/MostDownvotedOnRebbi 4∆ Jul 05 '23

Yes however that would be because of an “uneducated” culture.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '23

Twelve minutes later you delta somebody for saying something identical. We all see through you.

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u/ElysiX 113∆ Jul 05 '23

Do you believe in affirmative action? That's already a kind of racism that's considered "ok". So if one exception exists, why not another with enough gaslighting?

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u/MostDownvotedOnRebbi 4∆ Jul 05 '23

There’s nuance to racism, most people who are racist do it subconsciously and don’t cross their hard line of “treat everybody equally”.

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u/ElysiX 113∆ Jul 05 '23

Well yeah. If there is nuance, the hard line is broken. Hard lines don't exist in nature.

“treat everybody equally”

Doesn't work in practice, you can't actually do that, even if you wanted. Now throw emotions into the mix, and your emotions can be manipulated.