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1/ questions raised by linked thread: What are some other significant traits of liberal thinking? One is the tendency to think WEIRDly. Another is the tendency to employ only 1/2 of the evolved psychological mechanisms of social cognition (and of those mostly just care/harm)
2/ Another is that the left-wing emphasis on altruism/empathy/sympathy can be so single-minded, so exclusionary toward other necessary aspects of healthy society, that it becomes pathological.
3/ Another is left’s relative deficiency in the ability to imagine how other people could think differently, and its tendency to therefore conclude that “others” are sick, broken, malformed:
4/ Another is the left’s greater tendency throughout history to feel not only logically justified, but more, morally obligated, to exclude said sick/malformed/broken “others” from social discourse literally by any means necessary. https://t.co/OBbtApzHyD
5/ These things add up. Patterns emerge. A picture begins to form. More questions arise.
Have we been looking at the partisan divide all wrong all along?
1/n Two interesting findings thus far from my analysis of Pew's March 2020 COVID-19 survey. First, white (and especially 'very') liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition. pic.twitter.com/RynS9lk0jR
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) April 11, 2020
2/ Another is that the left-wing emphasis on altruism/empathy/sympathy can be so single-minded, so exclusionary toward other necessary aspects of healthy society, that it becomes pathological.
3/ Another is left’s relative deficiency in the ability to imagine how other people could think differently, and its tendency to therefore conclude that “others” are sick, broken, malformed:
4/ Another is the left’s greater tendency throughout history to feel not only logically justified, but more, morally obligated, to exclude said sick/malformed/broken “others” from social discourse literally by any means necessary. https://t.co/OBbtApzHyD
5/ These things add up. Patterns emerge. A picture begins to form. More questions arise.
Have we been looking at the partisan divide all wrong all along?