Trevor Noah
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And the critical technique that works is being warm,
Being respectful, being an active listener, and asking good questions, just like you do.
You ask good questions that make people think.
That's the goal, not to persuade them to leave, to reality test for themselves.
But if you understand the techniques that were used on them, like I was saying before, I ask people, go back.
What was your first feeling and thought when that person invited you to the thing?
I remember it was odd or I had a feeling in my pit of my stomach there was something wrong.
And now that you know more, how would you have liked to respond?
I would have liked to have questioned it or I would have liked to say, no way, Jose, or whatever.
But the point is people want to be free.
People don't like to be abused and lied to.
But they need a face-saving way to exit.
So if they understand how pimps recruit women to be sex slaves or labor trafficking victims, if they understand the methods and you ask them, so what's your understanding of how intelligent people can be controlled that way?
And give them the tools and ask them to go back and reflect.
Because a lot of people hated Trump and then they got converted.
Who converted them?
They watched the movie.
They went to a rally.
They had a friend at work.
Like, get them to remember what they thought they were hearing and learning.