I wish this “red pill” nonsense would stop. Tying reality to a movie is childish fantasy.
It’s a useful metaphor.
It’s from a movie? I didn’t know. I thought I must have missed a good FR thread that had the explanation.
It’s just pop culture shorthand, not many other ways to put it. “Convert?” That sounds a little too pushy.
Actually, ‘red pill’ is a good euphemism for harsher expressions such as ‘incite’, ‘shock’, ‘battle’, ‘fight’.
It has nice connotations also, such as an awakening or awareness process leading to action.
I won’t argue against it as there have been hundreds of euphemisms that have found a home in contemporary vocabulary.
I never saw the film where it was born but I will use it.
Being “Red pilled” certainly beats being “woke”.