So there is this guy at my college (UK) and he is a monarchist and definitely right wing and the topic of Daunte Wright’s Murder came up in conversation and he was excusing the cops actions, which is just disgusting. He was saying that down to nerves the cop didn’t realise it was a gun and also brought up that Daunte had a warrant on him, which I have not heard of.
So the guy is a **** and burden on society (makes racist, homophobic, transphobic jokes) and at the time I wanted to prove him wrong and educate his ass but I didn’t know how, so how can I deal with a situation like this?
These links might be helpful in understanding the conservative mindset:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/conservative-and-liberal-brains-might-have-some-real-differences/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g
Conservatives want the existing social/economic/power hierarchies to be conserved because:
In my opinion/experience conservatives are more dishonest and are more accepting of dishonest tactics being used as long as they believe it is beneficial to their cause. E.g. everyone knows Trump lie’s all the time, its just conservatives don’t care.
Is your goal to change this persons mind, or is your goal to change the audiences mind?
You are unlikely to convince this person of anything in a debate because they will not enter an honest debate. @tronk@lemmy.ml has posted links that talk about this more.
If you want to convince everyone else then you should have talking points: Monarchy: https://www.schule-bw.de/faecher-und-schularten/sprachen-und-literatur/englisch/unterrichtsmaterialien-nach-kompetenzen/sprechen/kommunikationspruefung/themen/monarchy-1.pdf