A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds

Re:A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds by rybosome on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:39PM (#33219307)

We are all, regardless of the direction of our political leaning, suspended in our beliefs by the community we are part of.

If you don’t believe me, I encourage you to try walking down Main Street in small town America with a BLM flag. It’ll be received about as well as parading a Trump 2024 flag around a coastal city.

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Re:A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds by Swizec on Saturday October 15, 2022 @06:46PM (#33219346)

I visited a small town recently - Ithaca. As someone from San Francisco I was shocked by the amount of LGBTQ and BLM imagery.

Feels like everyone in SF kinda takes it as the default position, no need to show off.

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Re:A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds by fragmede on Saturday October 15, 2022 @07:28PM (#33219612)

Ithaca, NY is a college town with a top-tier university and is located in Tompkins county which went 73.5% for Biden in 2020. It happens to be a small town, but I don't know that I'd consider it representative of small town America.

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Re:A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds by pempem on Saturday October 15, 2022 @08:06PM (#33219837)

Ah Ithaca is so tremendously close to my heart.

It is also a liberal college town with all of the externalization that can invoke. You only need to head to Oswego, or Genesee county generally to find a lot of upstate NY conservatism, often similarly openly shared.

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Re:A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds by ekianjo on Sunday October 16, 2022 @12:30AM (#33221031)

everyone needs to show off their propaganda posters like in the good old ussr

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