One of my be biggest mistake that a lot of people make when facing up against authoritarians and conservatives is to assume that these people just need to see the truth, that they are making mistakes and just need to be shown that. It doesn’t work like that. They aren’t interested in truth or justice. They care about power and a hierarchical social order above all.
The very idea of humans being all fundamentally equal and deserving is wrong and unnatural to them. You can’t argue with them about how for example legislation will unfairly harm some people. That’s an intended and necessary outcome for them, not a problem to be addressed.
And they believe everyone thinks like they do, so they assume any attempt at making the world more fair and just must be a trick to replace or surpass them in the social hierarchy. To them, the hierarchy is eternal and natural, and dismantling it impossible in the same way that going faster than light is physically impossible.
@esther Yeah the good old argument: People X are not like us, they do not believe in truth, they do not believe in Justice or Fairness. They wish simply to oppress others, like us.
An argument literally used by every authoritarian government ever to justify their oppression. Not to mention that the logical conclusion of that line of thinking is that People X must be cleansed from our lands to ensure our safety. It's disturbing how many people have voiiced their support of the statement, considering it could have been taken right out of a speech from Pol Pot.
