I don’t want to debate right-wingers online, its just a waste of time, but that’s where they get most of the support from. its not that the right wingers have an established community online and they do hate speech, the worse thing I get sad about is the people they brainwash.
I’m still learning theory, but I also want to start educating myself on discourse and meta-discourse too, and pointing out the fallacies that they go for, why they go for it, why the uneducated believe it.
I know there are resources on this, I just wanted to know where I can start. Would linguistics be a field of study connected to this? I think it does make sense.
Ahh no I absolutely didn’t mean i) or iii). Marxist or non-Marxist, I just want to study the content itself. Thank you for the recommendations!
You’re welcome.
To answer this question more directly:
It probably comes down to (1) propaganda, (2) lack of education, and (3) people’s material interests making them not want to look too closely.
You’re approach to look into the way that arguments are constructed (rhetoric/discourse/meta-discourse) should help you around the first one.
The other two are a bit harder. But reading Marxist literature will help. For example if people are talking bollocks about climate change and you’ve read something by JB Foster or Andreas Malm, you’ll know where and why other people get things so wrong. You can then compare what Marxists say about any given topic to identify how non-Marxists either omit information (knowingly or unknowingly), lie, or are confused. But I think you’re right, at this stage, not up debate right wingers. Better to build your own knowledge up first.