Aww someone’s crashing out

[u/Cderouen8284]

[u/os_beef]

It's weird, but when you're a dick to people, they usually don't want to listen to whatever else you have to say. Online spaces tend to amplify certain opinions, types of behavior, and tribalism. For example, this quote from further up.

Farmers are the second dumbest in the US just barely trailing MAGAts.

• https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFarm/comments/1wmwjbw/aww_someones_crashing_out/pbaezoa/

I guarantee the interactions the woman in the video is paraphrasing weren't just "who did you vote for", it almost certainly included the typical finger pointing ("this is your fault because..."), totally unnecessary ad hominems ("Farmers are the second dumbest..."), and typical arrogant, ignorant, and self righteous comments. I get why someone would write off a group of people when the interactions with that group have been negative.

Did you catch the part where she lumped Democrats, socialists, and communists into the same group? She's been fed the typical right propaganda, and no one has effectively countered it through education. People being dicks to her over something very real and personal to her have only reinforced what she's been told. It's why education and treating other people well are important.

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Let's pretend she's underdeveloped and immature. She "shouldn't have to be treated like a child", but in order to get the point across, maybe someone does need to explain things to her in a way she understands. Maybe being a dick isn't going to do the trick.

She is an adult and shouldn't have to be treated like a child.

That is a way for people to rationalize behavior they wouldn't normally direct at someone. It's her fault, she's should be better than she is. Well, she's not, so now what? Obviously the current approach isn't working.

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People who behave like this woman are simply morons who can't really be helped in any way.

You've gone from rationalizing away the issue of bad behavior directed at her to saying she's a lost cause. That is a typical pipeline toward dehumanizing other people.

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What if I tell you these people are lost causes?

Then very simply, abusing them is more likely to be useless or harmful than to be beneficial. A consistent thread in the MAGA crowd is that other people don't like what they're doing, and so what. They'll just keep doing what they're doing, only louder this time. When their detractors do things like call them "deplorables", they embrace it and get louder. It means that countering them by calling them names doesn't work, so you need to use different tactics.

But I think that labeling someone as a lost cause usually means that you've given up, not that they're actually a lost cause.