I don’t want to debate right-wingers online, its just a waste of time, but that’s where they get most of the support from. its not that the right wingers have an established community online and they do hate speech, the worse thing I get sad about is the people they brainwash.
I’m still learning theory, but I also want to start educating myself on discourse and meta-discourse too, and pointing out the fallacies that they go for, why they go for it, why the uneducated believe it.
I know there are resources on this, I just wanted to know where I can start. Would linguistics be a field of study connected to this? I think it does make sense.
I just recently listened to David McRaney on Gaslight nation. He doesn’t really focus on changing minds, more on getting them to question how they arrived at their opinions. He might be a liberal, but I’ll take help where I can get it. What he finds is that they form opinions around reactants and never think how they got there. They rarely change their minds because of the emotional attachments to their groups. But if you raise doubts, that’s all you can do. Then go from there.