There's nothing I can do to educate another person who is not talking to me in good faith or even respects my view. Especially someone online.

Think about stubborn family members on any given non-hyper polarized thing. Those things take awhile to convince if ever. Let alone something more charged as a topic.

Look at this sub. You'd think by now we'd not have an anti-trans topic every few days, but we do. Or rants about feminism that are the same arguments.

On a platform like reddit people are going to believe dumb shit and reject any sort of rational argument because they don't agree w/ it. You cannot just convince someone who is steeped in right wing shit that COVID is a threat. They moved the goalposts a million times.

You cannot convince an all lives matter person that black lives matter is about addressing systemic issues because they don't believe it. Even if you showed them evidence they'd reject it.

I think it's better to shame these people because what they want is an argument. They want a reaction and it's better to insult them and be done with it.

And this isn't just a right wing thing. Libs will argue shit that is just purely wrong. Leftists will refuse basic facts about things. Even as a leftist, I can see how dumb and misinformed people are on the left and the right.

I am only one person and it takes a while for me to recall all relevant facts I know on like redlining from books I read. You cannot just combat bad ideas by being like well here's some info. Most people who disagree reject that info or just like overlook it.

The other problem is the Holocaust denial issue that ppl bring up with the History subreddit. It takes knowledge and time to debunk carefully crafted lies and engaging with them only helps platform them.

Look at other things people think are true or get in their heads about. Some people think work from home is a ploy to get us to invest in the metaverse without ever considering an alternative theory. Because a lot of theories can sound true and be backed by evidence if you aren't looking at the full picture.

People have enough data/studies to make wearing masks or vaccines questionable because they ignore everything else. You cannot endlessly debate the same talking points.