Not gonna lie

It was kind of traumatizing watching someone have a melt down about transpeople on my post.

I mean, I'm sorry they got to that point. I feel bad for them that they have made themselves feel so deeply about wrong information that they actually had what was a break.

I feel badly that the discussion led them there. I'm also somewhat traumatized seeing what happens to people when they are countered with logic and they can't process it.

I don't think I have ever been in that situation before.

Even though I blocked them, I hope they are okay. I hope they are resting and taking some deep breaths to ground themselves again.

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OlderSometimesWiser · F

Try to corner those people into a factual debate and they absolutely crumble. Then come the cries of fake news, whataboutism, idiotic memes and when all else fails, accusations of being a troll. Logic and facts mean nothing when you’re that brainwashed. As it’s been said, easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled. This is their Titanic and they seem downright proud to go down with the ship.

FoxyQueen · 51-55, F

@OlderSometimesWiser I will admit, it's always enlightening to hear how they view things. It shows how little they actually understand about what things are done in government and the narrative they are so eager to cling to. It's always good to know where their thoughts are to some extent.

I just didn't expect someone to react so...as if their life depended on me agreeing with their beliefs. Like, that's scary. And it makes me sad that my conversation got them there. I generally know my limits on what I can debate about before it gets personal. This person seemed to have none of those and just went rabid. I shouldn't be given that much importance lol

At any rate the post was more my rethinking the situation and just feeling horrified and sad. We should be working to find common ground, not become shrieking piles of nonsense.

OlderSometimesWiser · F

@FoxyQueen Those are good points and on the internet it can be especially difficult to know where ignorance ends and mentally unbalanced begins.