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Debunking: Emotions & Community
Fact Artillery — Deeper Foxholes
Trolling, provocation and other challenges
Trolling Techniques: (1) Outrage —> (2) Innocent Echo —> (3) Attacked
Trolling Techniques: (1) Outrage —> (2) Anger —> (3) Circle the Wagons cycle
Conversation Steps
Observation
Ask
Request
Listen
Reflect
Conversation Basics: Agree
Agree on fears and move on
Share
Your state of mind
Anger
Avoid Displaced Anger
Processing emotions such as anger
nurture your curiousity
Teams and Identities
Big Tent / Welcome
Separation of the Righteous
Progressives, internal dynamics
Holding a movement together
action allows hope allows acceptance
team story
Alternative Group Boundaries
journey together
messengers
argue with your preferred opponent
Echo This: Send Oxygen to the Healthy Debates
Exiting the Trump Train
Continuing down the path
Tribalism, Centrism, Values
Floater Centrism
Bedrock Centrism
Checklist - Warning Signs
Winning Your Conversation
Facts: When They Work, When They Fail
Facts Support Stories
Judgment: Weight Facts, Don't Judge Entire Belief Systems
values and priorities — tune to theirs
breaking patterns
active processing
leading with facts (backfires)
debunking
language and frame
advocate for framing
metaphor
Indirect: provide frames or facts outside political arguments
psychology, values, moral foundations
moral foundations values
sanctity vs disgust
separating moral foundation values
communication techniques
Altercasting
Encourage Talk Beyond Talking-Points
yes, and...
active listening
Skip the conclusion
Questions
How Will That Work
say why before your conclusion
requests
exchange listening
conversational frame
judgment as the purpose of a conversation, avoiding
strategies, misc
steel argument
inoculation
double crux
cognitive bias, overcoming
Paradoxical Thinking, or Over-Active Listening
false opposites: ideas with tension
hypocrisy doesn't prevent shame