there's a lot of good advice here. Being really pedagogical in your approach helps a lot. Ask questions that lead to conclusions and try to have him walk through his thoughts, tbh in my experience reactionaries don't have a logical basis for their views and ideas, they're either inherited by osmosis from the status quo or just emotional and they never really think about them. sometimes you can get them to grow up from an idea just by having them actually think about it for once.
Of course being challenged on them either in person or by seeing something that makes them think about it/feel judged is often what leads them to double down. So who knows what he's experienced and how far those experiences have pushed him down into reaction but it'll be a long and arduous process bringing him out of it.
I feel for you my brother is also extremely reactionary and once told me
warning: EXTREME transphobia
we should "round up all trans people and gas them" bc "it's a mental illness"
I've made some progress with him but tbh we dont really see each other very often. But I do have a certain group of clients that are young, well to do, cishet white boys that have helped a lot see that white privilege is a thing and get over some other reactionary views by just leading them through stuff.
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there's a lot of good advice here. Being really pedagogical in your approach helps a lot. Ask questions that lead to conclusions and try to have him walk through his thoughts, tbh in my experience reactionaries don't have a logical basis for their views and ideas, they're either inherited by osmosis from the status quo or just emotional and they never really think about them. sometimes you can get them to grow up from an idea just by having them actually think about it for once.
Of course being challenged on them either in person or by seeing something that makes them think about it/feel judged is often what leads them to double down. So who knows what he's experienced and how far those experiences have pushed him down into reaction but it'll be a long and arduous process bringing him out of it.
I feel for you my brother is also extremely reactionary and once told me
warning: EXTREME transphobia
we should "round up all trans people and gas them" bc "it's a mental illness"
I've made some progress with him but tbh we dont really see each other very often. But I do have a certain group of clients that are young, well to do, cishet white boys that have helped a lot see that white privilege is a thing and get over some other reactionary views by just leading them through stuff.
Really good shit right here. I struggle to do this but when I do, it's very effective.
Gotta fight those urges to make fun of them