That’s good for your cousin’s group to be excluding Fox and QAnon media and instead limiting themselves to news from the White House, because the trump administration’s denial and manipulation of facts is going to end on January 20, 2021.
“De-programming” people is a matter of education at many levels in many forms—one-on-one interactions…
That’s good for your cousin’s group to be excluding Fox and QAnon media and instead limiting themselves to news from the White House, because the trump administration’s denial and manipulation of facts is going to end on January 20, 2021.
“De-programming” people is a matter of education at many levels in many forms—one-on-one interactions with a seed planted of alternative, but to most people, rational fact, to absence of the toxic inflammatory propaganda, to lived experience that calms fears.
Ellie, you are very insightful and perceptive. I think you are right. I've seen many people come around not only in their perspective, but in the very assumptions with which they view the world in the context of your 2nd paragraph, which is a beautifully succinct synopis of how WE can gently de-program the people with whom we come into contact. Indeed, we can start with ourselves, by addressing the negativity that so many of us have fallen into.
I can claim some authority in this, as it was an intrinsic part of my job as a professional facilitator and advisor working with disparate groups on a number of high visibility issues. The very first time this happened, I had been given a group that everyone else had given up on. (I was the newbie, and they figured it couldn't get worse. To my bosses' surprise, I fixed it.)
The real key in your paragraph is where I started: "the absence of...toxic inflammatory [language]", and working with the group to establish an accepting atmosphere. This is why I repeatedly ask people to leave that kind of thinking and talking behind. It is a self-fulfulling prophesy that gets in the way.
That’s good for your cousin’s group to be excluding Fox and QAnon media and instead limiting themselves to news from the White House, because the trump administration’s denial and manipulation of facts is going to end on January 20, 2021.
“De-programming” people is a matter of education at many levels in many forms—one-on-one interactions with a seed planted of alternative, but to most people, rational fact, to absence of the toxic inflammatory propaganda, to lived experience that calms fears.
Ellie, you are very insightful and perceptive. I think you are right. I've seen many people come around not only in their perspective, but in the very assumptions with which they view the world in the context of your 2nd paragraph, which is a beautifully succinct synopis of how WE can gently de-program the people with whom we come into contact. Indeed, we can start with ourselves, by addressing the negativity that so many of us have fallen into.
I can claim some authority in this, as it was an intrinsic part of my job as a professional facilitator and advisor working with disparate groups on a number of high visibility issues. The very first time this happened, I had been given a group that everyone else had given up on. (I was the newbie, and they figured it couldn't get worse. To my bosses' surprise, I fixed it.)
The real key in your paragraph is where I started: "the absence of...toxic inflammatory [language]", and working with the group to establish an accepting atmosphere. This is why I repeatedly ask people to leave that kind of thinking and talking behind. It is a self-fulfulling prophesy that gets in the way.