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Is there any trick to de-radicalizing fascist relatives? I didn& #39;t think this would be a problem for me because I have approximately 2 relatives who still know me and they were carefully selected. But one of them has been posting anti-mask, anti-medicine type memes
I& #39;ve posted consistently on her posts with facts. I& #39;ve shared links. I described my own experience with COVID-19 where I was convinced I was going to die. I& #39;ve tried kindness and assuming she was misguided. I no longer think there& #39;s plausible deniability.
I posted recently on one of her shared posts essentially calling it bullshit in a way that explained why it was bullshit. Her whole response was, "there are a lot of things that are bullshit"
She& #39;s been posting increasingly fashy crap including falling for the psyop that pedophiles were being "added to the LGBT community"
I& #39;ve been correcting her at every turn. I told her I was concerned for her. I feel like I& #39;ve tried everything.
I& #39;ve been correcting her at every turn. I told her I was concerned for her. I feel like I& #39;ve tried everything.
My concern is that if I remove her from my life completely, she will be at the point of no return. But how do I know if she& #39;s already there?
It feels like I& #39;m talking to someone in a cult.
It feels like I& #39;m talking to someone in a cult.
The members of my family, virtually all of them, are not people who seek out actual knowledge. The other relative I& #39;m in touch with has always been receptive to things I& #39;ve explained. But the relative sharing this bs appears to be ignoring me.
What do I do? What& #39;s the best strategy, and the most ethical way to handle this?
The longer this goes on the farther gone I think she& #39;ll be. Do I just keep posting in hopes of getting through? I don& #39;t think she& #39;s open to any of this but I& #39;m willing to put in long term work.
The longer this goes on the farther gone I think she& #39;ll be. Do I just keep posting in hopes of getting through? I don& #39;t think she& #39;s open to any of this but I& #39;m willing to put in long term work.
We aren& #39;t close or anything - no one in my family is. But she& #39;s my only cousin on that side of the family. We don& #39;t talk over DMs these days but around 2013ish we used to text. I haven& #39;t seen her IRL since pre 2012. Our interactions are mainly Facebook posts.
I was thinking what if I try to build a connection with her in other ways and hope that might steer her into a connection-to-the-real-world way? I worry I would be doing so as a compromise or that this would be morally bad but I feel a duty to strategize. What would help?
