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2026-05-07 21:53 UTC
@RuthSalter@mastodon.scot A small fraction immediately changed the conversation from my petition on the super rich into being angry about immigrants. These people couldn't listen but also accused me of "not listening" when I tried to ask them questions about what they thought. I realised they really meant I wasn't actively agreeing with them but framing it as me not listening was how they could frame it that I was doing them wrong. These people proactively insisted I'd call them racist.
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@slowe@mastodon.me.uk 2026-05-07 22:00
@RuthSalter@mastodon.scot They really really didn't want to examine their own thoughts and each of them shut down the conversation. I feel this small fraction of people are largely beyond reach. There are other Reform voters who aren't and, as the article suggests, seem to have very different views to Reform/Farage on many topics but see them as "different". There's a much bigger group (in the 350 people who's doors I knocked on) who are worried about Reform and feel abandoned by Labour.