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  • Social Media Dialogue Part 6: 7 Final Practical Tips

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    Josh, Tim, and Rachel finish their multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media.

    Here are the tips covered in this episode:

    Practical Argumentation

    1. Use links sparingly. If your argument only works if they read a long article you link to, you’re doing it wrong. Summarize the thesis of what you’re linking to, and the link is to back you up or give them more info if they want it.
    2. Always cite neutral websites for sources.
    3. Know logical fallacies and cognitive biases so that you can recognize and respond to a logical fallacy (and not commit one yourself!).
    4. Stay factual. If you’re not sure, admit it. Use disclaimers like “It’s my understanding that…” instead of asserting ideas or facts you’re not sure about.
    5. Never claim research or studies have shown anything unless you are prepared to cite those sources.
    6. Not drowning them in text is a good goal to strive for unless you are telling a story for something like a thought experiment. They are more likely to actually read everything you are saying this way. If they are drowning you in text with many trains of thought running everywhere, perhaps remark that they are saying a lot at once and ask them which they would like a response to first.
    7. If someone crushes you under a wall of ranty text and you want to engage, feel free to pick one singular point and respond with only a line or two asking about it. There’s no rule saying you have to reply to every single point they make all at once.

      8. Related Links:

      • ERI Brochure Sources
      • Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: The Best Way to Expose Logical Fallacies: Don’t Call Them by Name
      • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
      • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
      • Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: How Your Brain Tricks You into Thinking the Other Side Is Stupid
      • YouTube/ABC News: Rick Perry’s ‘Oops’ Moment at 2011 Presidential Debate
      • Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Don’t Be Too Nice
      • Amazon: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration. (Affiliate link. ERI will get a small cut from Amazon if you purchase the book.)
      • TED Talks: Daniel H. Cohen: For Argument’s Sake

        • Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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        40 min
      • Social Media Dialogue Part 4: 12 More Practical Tips

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        Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode they continue a series of 35 practical tips in five categories.

        The episode begins with a brief discussion of Josh and Tim’s new kittens. If you want to skip this, the substantive content begins at 09:40.

        Here are the tips covered in this episode:

        Practical Lowering Defenses Moves

        1. Point out virtually every case of common ground.
        2. Do the “tell them what you don’t mean” thing more often on social media than in person due to it being easier for them to misunderstand, stew a bit, and then yell back an angry response or just leave, not giving you a chance to clarify.
        3. Consistently summarize the other person’s view or argument to them throughout the conversation. This assures the other person you’re taking them seriously as a human being and not some random name with a picture.
        4. Don’t forget to be relational when you talk about rape and other hard topics.
        5. Never (or rarely) use any language even bordering on profanity, caps, or anything remotely disrespectful like “baby killer”, “murderer”, etc.
        6. Use neutral terminology that the other side is comfortable with. 
        7. Never compare to Adolf Hitler, Dr. Mengele, Stalin, Pol Pot, the Holocaust, etc. That immediately ticks people off.
        8. Ask clarifying questions if you don’t understand; don’t assume.
        9. Point out when they teach you something.
        10. Like the other person’s comments when they’re being clear and charitable, not just when you agree with them.
        11. Don’t like or share inflammatory things.
        12. Sow intentional positive seeds with people you would hope to dialogue with one day.

          13. Related Links:

          • Learn more at equippedcourse.com to watch Equipped for Life Module Two, Lesson Six: Find Genuine Common Ground and Module Two, Lesson Eight: Say What You Don’t Mean.
          • ERI Podcast: Stories from the Students for Life Conference
          • Tom Segura: Seagal (Language warning)
          • Brain Pickings: How to Criticize with Kindness: Philosopher Daniel Dennett on the Four Steps to Arguing Intelligently (Rapoport’s Rules are listed in this article)
          • Channel 4 News YouTube Channel: Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
          • Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: Fetus Tunnel Vision: 4 Reasons Pro-Lifers Need to Stop Doing This
          • Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: On Virtue-Signaling

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            1 hr 8 min
          • Social Media Dialogue Part 3: 7 Practical Tips for Overcoming the Challenges

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            Download Audio MP3 | 00:58:19

            Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode they begin a series of 35 practical tips in five categories.

            Here are the tips covered in this episode:

            General Strategy

            1. Move to PM or in person as soon as possible, and then to Skype/in-person soon after that. Once you’re in PM, get personal.
            2. Make minimal persuasion goals. It’s more of a marathon on Facebook than outreach.
            3. Make limited claims.

              4. Mindset

              1. Be aware of the lack of nonverbal communication. It’s just your text and your profile pic if they don’t know you. Given that, you need to write a little bit as a caricature of yourself so that after it’s been filtered, it comes out fairly accurately.
              2. Post things with pro-choice people in mind. Will it make pro-lifers raise their fists but cause pro-choice people to be frustrated and less likely to talk to you, your friends, and all the other pro-lifers? Then don’t share it.
              3. Assume the best about people. 
              4. Take a step back if you’re feeling defensive.

                5. Sorry about the occasional coughing you’ll hear in the background. Some of the team had colds while we recorded this episode.

                Related Links:

                • YouTube: AwakenWithJP – Being a Social Justice Warrior
                • YouTube: Fmr. Facebook Exec: Social Media Ripping Apart Society, “You are programmed.” (Uncensored)
                • YouTube: Anonymous – This will Change Everything You Know (Longer video with more clips like the one from the Facebook exec)
                • YouTube: Glenn Loury on Mass Incarceration in the United States (Part 1 of 7)
                • YouTube: The Office – Whomever Debate

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                  59 min
                • Social Media Dialogue Part 2: How to Think About Virtue-Signaling

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                  Download Audio MP3 | 00:40:37

                  Josh, Tim, and Rachel continue a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. In this episode Tim discusses virtue-signaling. What is it? Are there different types? Are some of them actually okay? And when is it a valid or helpful accusation?

                  Related Links:

                  • Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: On Virtue-Signaling
                  • Reddit: r/IAmVerySmart, a subreddit about people trying too hard to look smart.
                  • Timothy Brahm for the ERI Blog: Fellow Pro-Lifers: Please Stop Sharing This Straw Man Meme

                    • Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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                    41 min
                  • Social Media Dialogue Part 1: The Obstacles

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                    Download Audio MP3 | 00:52:26

                    Josh, Tim, and Rachel begin a multi-part series on how to be an effective pro-life advocate on social media. They begin the series by talking about some of the obstacles that often prevent good dialogue from happening on social media, like image management.

                    The episode begins with a discussion of our favorite Facebook pages. If you don’t want to hear any of this, skip to 08:18.

                    Related Links:

                    • Facebook Page: Ecclesia Dei Strikes Back
                    • Facebook Page: The Babylon Bee
                    • See the Equipped for Life Podcast 14 on Relational Apologetics Personal Stories and Reflections
                    • CollegeHumor: If People Left Parties Like They Leave Facebook
                    • ABC News YouTube Channel: Ashton Kutcher Speech on Human Trafficking Before Congress
                    • Vanity Fair: Why Anthony Hopkins Will Never Write Another Actor Fan Mail Again

                      • Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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                      53 min
                    • Listener Mail, Freakonomics & Utilitarianism

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                      Josh, Tim, and Rachel talk about how to respond to the Freakonomics argument that abortion has resulted in a drop in crime rates, as well as a new technique Josh has been using when talking to utilitarians.

                      The episode begins with a discussion of various theories at to Rey’s parentage in the Star Wars universe, in anticipation of “The Last Jedi” coming out. This discussion includes spoilers of “The Force Awakens” and some of what has been learned through “The Last Jedi” trailers, so skip the discussion if you’re avoiding all potential spoilers. Some of this discussion has been moved to a deleted scene below, but if you don’t want to hear any of this discussion, skip to 09:59.

                      Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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                      57 min
                    • How Can the Pro-Life Movement Win Against Viral Pro-Choice Tweets?

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                      Download Audio MP3 | 00:46:49

                      Josh, Tim, and Rachel respond to a bunch of listener mail questions related to the burning IVF lab thought experiment, particularly the concern that it’s too easy for pro-choice people to get traction with strawmen tweets when pro-life people have to answer with longer, more thoughtful responses that fewer people will read.

                      Related Links:

                        • Tim Brahm for the ERI Blog: Four Practical Tips for Responding to the Burning Fertility Clinic
                        • Robert George for Public Discourse: Embryos and Five-Year-Olds: Whom to Rescue
                        • Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: Understanding What Richard Dawkins Actually Believes About Abortion and Down Syndrome
                        • Josh Brahm for the ERI Blog: Richard Dawkins Retweeted My Article, and What We Can Learn From That
                        • Facebook: Dank Pro-Life Memes

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                          Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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                          47 min
                        • Dealing with Discouragement at Outreach

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                          Josh, Tim, and Rachel talk about their recent outreach at Davidson College, which was a particularly difficult outreach for Tim and Rachel. They discuss what made it difficult as well as share some practical tips for handling discouragement at an outreach.

                          Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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                          55 min
                        • Responding to Free Speech Violations on Campus

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                          Download Audio MP3 | 00:31:09

                          Josh, Tim, and Rachel interview Casey Mattox on how students should deal with free speech violations, and responding to common arguments from typically leftists defending free speech violations.

                          Casey Mattox joined Alliance Defending Freedom in 2009 litigating cases to protect the First Amendment rights of students and faculty at public colleges and universities across the nation. Since December 2016 he has served as Director of ADF’s Center for Academic Freedom, where he leads a team of attorneys that is one of the most active groups of litigators defending First Amendment rights on public university campuses.

                          Casey has testified three times before House committees on a variety of First Amendment and other constitutional issues. He has also made numerous media appearances, and his work has been featured at USA Today, The Federalist, and Townhall, among others.

                          He earned his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2001, and clerked for the Alabama Supreme Court.

                          Questions:

                          1. How would you respond to someone who defends free speech violations by saying that the first amendment does not guarantee a right to be heard?
                          2. How would you respond to someone who says, “If you go to a public area to express your free speech rights but get drowned out by someone else expressing their free speech rights, you don’t get to shut down someone else’s rights because you want to be heard”?
                          3. Can you talk about the concept of a “heckler’s veto”?
                          4. What should students do if they’re trying to have a dialogue event and the pro-choice crowd comes out with noisemakers to drown that out, and the campus administration won’t do anything about it?
                          5. The First Amendment isn’t ambiguous about whether or not people can physically block people from a speaking event, so why is that still sometimes happening? Are the penalties not big enough?
                          6. Is there any path forward at a legal level to get around this problem? A way that would cause universities to get penalized in a way that would incentivize them to follow the law?
                          7. What is the difference between a case where you’re able to successfully sue the school versus a case where you don’t have enough evidence to move forward? What should students do to make sure that their cases don’t end up in the pile of cases where nothing happens?
                          8. What are some red flags that students should look out for so they can know when to call ADF?
                          9. How would you respond to someone who defends free speech violations based on the idea that if the speech in question is dangerous, like Naziism, then it’s good to block people from hearing that speech or even get violent in response to it?

                            10. Related Links:

                            • Timothy Brahm – Six Ways I’ve Seen Pro-Choice People Try to Censor Pro-Lifers. (Some of the defenses of free speech violations we discussed come from the comments under this article.) https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/six-ways-ive-seen-pro-choice-people-try-to-censor-pro-lifers/
                            • Timothy Brahm – How Should Conservatives Respond to the Disturbing Trend of Campus Censorship? https://blog.equalrightsinstitute.com/conservatives-respond-disturbing-trend-campus-censorship/
                            • Alliance Defending Freedom: https://www.adflegal.org
                            • Follow Casey Mattox on Twitter: https://twitter.com/caseymattox_

                              • Subscribe to the Equipped for Life Podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Subscribe to ERI’s other podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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                              32 min
                            • Fetus Tunnel Vision and What to Do If They Say Let’s Just Agree to Disagree

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                              Download Audio MP3 | 00:57:41

                              Josh, Tim, and Jacob sit down to respond to more listener mail questions. Topics include pro-choice Fetus Tunnel Vision, whether or not we should allow people to “insta-correct” their views, and what to do if they say, “Let’s just agree to disagree.”

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                              58 min

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