Comment on Anon's coworker is a flat-earther

shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Humiliating people does not help them grow, study suggests

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  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s just as equally effective to break dumb beliefs like this as reasoning is, and both are far more effective than empathy, according to studies.

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    • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m going to need a source for those claims.

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      • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        GIYF. the paper is out there, published and reviewed. circa 2021, I think.

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, but it prevents other people from engaging with a topic to begin with

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  • Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On the other hand, normalizing and allowing it just enables and validates it.

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• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not that their opinion is now valuable. We just figured out that Bullying doesn’t work.

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  • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    except that it does

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    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, bud.

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      • archon@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        To supress elements in a herd? Sure it does.

        Healthy for the individual? Not so much.

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      • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        it’s like no bully ever got lunch money from another kid ever, because bullying doesn’t work?

        the mafia/mob tried to run protection rackets, but were never successful because bullying doesn’t work.

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        jfc you people. 🤦‍♂️

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• paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think that’s what the internet has done for us, it’s removed that sort “social immune system” that prevented crazy ideas from spreading. Before, if somebody had some crazy ideas, the most they could usually do was rant to people on the bus/subway, maybe make some pamphlets, or some other small-scale thing to spread the idea. At best you might find someone on AM radio broadcasting at weird hours. Individuals would get exposed to it, but would likely never pass it on, this contained crazy ideas and they rarely got traction to spread.

  Now the internet comes along, and suddenly crazies are getting hooked up with impressionable people easier than ever before. Crazy ideas have an almost endless supply of rubes that will eat them right up. Our social immune system can’t protect society from all the insane things flying around at high speeds all over the place now. It’s intellectual chaos.

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  • nonfuinoncuro@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean the social immune system also prevented ideas like worker solidarity, gender equality, socioeconomic mobility, sexual freedom, etc. from spreading but I get your point. Opening Pandora’s box let the crazies out as well as the AOC/Bernie and free Palestine crowds.

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