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That is also an excellent point. My sister used to have some real questionable views about race and gender stuff and we had our disagreements, but one day out of the blue she surprised me by calling my mom out for reposting crypto fascist shit on social media and then in the conversation with me that ensued she admitted that I was pretty much right about all my criticism and that she recognized she had been a shitty bigot.
She still listens to the most god awful country music and married a Marine vet but he seems to be a potential comrade (it is basically my life mission to ensure he becomes a based antifa supersoldier). At least contact with the cooler side of my family is already working on him. We even got him to acknowledge the moral correctness of veganism even if I doubt he or my sister would ever commit.
I used to get "that's some tumblr shit" from people all the time when calling out their casual bigotry. Now those exact same people do the same callouts I did against them.
Whether they admit it or not the criticism does creep into their heads, next time they consider it the same thoughts pop up from the conversation that was had.
Nobody can escape becoming conscious of an issue that they were unconscious to previously. They may show anger and resistance to the fact you've brought it up but they will not be able to forget it.
In people who are not actively choosing to be horrible people, ignorance can only become consciousness. Only the genuinely bad people become conscious of an issue and then actively choose to be bad. The vast majority of these people are just ignorant.
Beautifully written. You have always been one of my fav posters and this is the shit I love about this site. Buried under several kilometers of irony poisoning are nuggets like this that would have our favorite theorists agape at while hastily scribbling their own equivalent to a quote tweet.
It's so important to remember too. Most people are good but ignorant, they can only go one direction and you just need to shout enough information at them for it to happen. Material conditions and interests still apply of course.