They’ll talk for half an hour about university reform but the moment you ask “who owns the coal mines” or “where does the lithium come from” they say they haven’t thought about it then they get mad at me when I say the Nordic model is fascist
I can bait the ADHD ones into reading theory by simply using enticing vocab words but idk how to deal with everyone else
This is absolutely the way to educate. Don’t tell them things, help guide them to conclusions, encourage them to think about and discuss the topic with you, give them information and ask Socratic questions about their understanding of things, always make it clear that these ideas are not a part of their personal identity, otherwise they’ll just feel attacked and refuse to engage.
And it can take years of patience before someone really starts examining things closely of their own volition, you can’t force someone to change their mind, you can only help them along the way.