As in, not known to you IRL.
I’ve occasionally brought it up before, but a while back in my reddit days I was in a thread where a “professional deprogrammer” had popped in and was talking about how to “deprogram” conservatives and get them to shift left in their views. It centered around restoring their sense of community and belonging with more balanced viewpoint folks IRL and away from their online echo chambers.
I asked them if they had any way to convert someone you encounter wholly online and they said that it was basically impossible, IRL you have a decent chance, but not online.
I’ve been thinking about that quite a bit, so now I’m curious if anybody here has actually gotten an online conservative to come to the dark side light side?
I was starting to get into terfism about 5 years ago, and started to get into some right wing content (what they tell you about the terf to alt right pipeline IS true). What changed me was my best friend found out she was trans, and then I started researching more about the trans point of view on all this shit. A youtuber called Jessie Gender was greatly responsible for this also. I also dug into my feelings that partially got me into this in the first place and then I found out I was nonbinary. This gave me a whole different perspective on consuming right wing content, bc I sorta went through it personally.