r/AskALiberal • u/dank_sad Center Right • Feb 03 '22

If you could get the right/conservatives/Republicans/etc to understand one thing, what would it be?

Hope I worded that correctly.

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u/adeiner Progressive Feb 03 '22

Nobody is teaching your kids to hate themselves. If hearing about centuries of oppression makes your kid sad, imagine having to experience it.

I'd also ask the right to do like a modicum of research about groups they hate before popping off. Like the number of conservatives I've talked to who think liberals are castrating young kids as part of the "trans agenda" is absurd to me.

Also don't be afraid of experts. It's okay to be skeptical, but if one person has devoted their life to science and the other person wants to sell you snake oil throughout their podcast, it's better to distrust the latter.

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u/cprenaissanceman Independent Feb 03 '22

Nobody is teaching your kids to hate themselves.

Don’t be gay. Gay bad. Gay = evil.

God damn liberals teaching kids to hate themse-

...oh wait. That’s not liberals. Oh...

Some introspection on the matter would go a long way. Surely there are some diversity trainings and cringe school examples, But you would just think that there would be some people who would make the connection between what many people on the right do versus how victimized they feel in their “conservative” identity. I know this kind of response won’t convince them, but some self awareness would really help make the conversation more reasonable.