• Seagoon_OP
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    19 days ago

    this isn’t radical empathy, it’s knowledge and expertise gained from decades of study and interacting with close family members who were in a very destructive religious cult, think scientology

    the point is to not use words or ideas that set them off

    Spud wrote it out very well, I’m just going the one further step. You can get them to change their mind, you have to talk about other things.