Comment by nuancebydefault
1 year ago
I think recent events have shown clearly that, regrettably, offensive communication works wonders in convincing people.
1 year ago
I think recent events have shown clearly that, regrettably, offensive communication works wonders in convincing people.
If you're talking about Trump, I feel like the offensive communication there has done a bad job of convincing people who the offense is aimed at, and only a good job of motivating people who perceive themselves to be aligned with the offense.
Or if they’re talking about those calling people extreme names like Hitler and fascist, it didn’t do a very job convincing people to vote the way the name-callers wanted.
Luckily it didn’t work well enough.
Trump won twice. That is pretty clear signal that what works the best is to attack, insult and throw a lot of outrage to whereover it sticks.
Works and works best may be far apart. His approach was not battle tested against very many alternatives and only against alternatives saddled with severe constraints.