Very shortly after 01/06, a man met me at the house to get something I’d advertised on Nextdoor.com.
“Hey, I’ve seen you on there! You’ve made a bunch of comments about the riot. My brother is a cop.”
(Take my word or not, that statement was not confrontational, more like, “I’ve seen you and I might not agree.”)
“Those scum overran the cop’s barricades, beat them with an American flagpole, injured hundreds of cops and 2 more suicided directly after. Fuck them and their “we love cops” bullshit.”
(That was the gist of it, I can hardly remember the actual words, but everyone clapped.)
You could see the gears turning, see him truly thinking about the thing. It was certainly the first time he was hit with cognitive dissonance on that particular issue. I could see him getting a bit angry thinking on the “riot” from a new perspective.
He got what he came for, we shook hands, parted amiably. But at least he was thinking.
Very shortly after 01/06, a man met me at the house to get something I’d advertised on Nextdoor.com.
“Hey, I’ve seen you on there! You’ve made a bunch of comments about the riot. My brother is a cop.”
(Take my word or not, that statement was not confrontational, more like, “I’ve seen you and I might not agree.”)
“Those scum overran the cop’s barricades, beat them with an American flagpole, injured hundreds of cops and 2 more suicided directly after. Fuck them and their “we love cops” bullshit.”
(That was the gist of it, I can hardly remember the actual words, but everyone clapped.)
You could see the gears turning, see him truly thinking about the thing. It was certainly the first time he was hit with cognitive dissonance on that particular issue. I could see him getting a bit angry thinking on the “riot” from a new perspective.
He got what he came for, we shook hands, parted amiably. But at least he was thinking.