Yes, I’m serious. Depends on if you want to actually change minds, or if you want to try to take a punitive approach to try to shout down narrow minded people (which doesn’t really achieve anything).
I think what you mean with “open mind” is not what I think of. To me that would include (the possibility of) accepting their way as “correct”, so to accept their concept of reality. Like in a debate about how much wine is good (if) and when it starts to be bad. But objectively wrong things are not something I need to be open about. I can discuss it with someone without dismissing their view etc. but I would never be open minded about it.
Open mind to racists, homophobes, …? Are you serious?
Yes, I’m serious. Depends on if you want to actually change minds, or if you want to try to take a punitive approach to try to shout down narrow minded people (which doesn’t really achieve anything).
If a black man can convert high ranking KKK members through conversation alone, then it certainly is possible. Daryl Davis was directly responsible for between forty and sixty, and indirectly over two hundred people leaving the Klan. Or if you want to hear detail about the process then there’s a podcast episode about this as well.
I think what you mean with “open mind” is not what I think of. To me that would include (the possibility of) accepting their way as “correct”, so to accept their concept of reality. Like in a debate about how much wine is good (if) and when it starts to be bad. But objectively wrong things are not something I need to be open about. I can discuss it with someone without dismissing their view etc. but I would never be open minded about it.