A dear and wise minister friend of mine's mantra on this is: "You can't reason people out of something they didn't reason themselves into." You can talk at folks until they're blue in the face, but the opposition is coming from somewhere else entirely (fear and insecurity about social status leading to the need to shore it up by finding people to be better than, mostly). I hate it because it feels manipulative, but I find myself resorting to emotional arguments and blunt accusations like 'you are saying your family deserves to be treated better than mine'...I wish I could find that magic key that associates this stance with something that they think is bad, but I don't think I have yet.
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Date: Thu, Jun. 14th, 2012 02:27 pm (UTC)