Posted by dino27 on 1/12/2021 2:18:00 PM (view original):
FYI dummy I said I don’t criticize people the same as others who suffered personal physical trauma that was race related when they later develop a group bias.
not that they are right. Just that they were trauma victims because You raised the issue.
get off my *** and grow up you hybrid.
Ah, I think I get it now.
You fundamentally misunderstood my initial point.
I'm not saying people develop a bias because of "personal physical trauma." I'm saying that the more we understand about human decision making, the less and less free will it appears that we really have. It's not that we have none, but most of our decisions are made without active thought. In all of those cases we're making decisions based totally on built-in human biases and our total set of life experiences. Even if we make "informed" decisions about politics, they're informed by the stream of information we've stored, and that is filtered automatically through the lens of what we already believe. We give more weight to stories and facts that fit our existing worldview, which in turn serves to strengthen said worldview over time. There's a reason that by their mid-30s 80-odd percent of people identify with the same political party (or independent) as their parents.
What I said was that under different circumstances you could very well have been the hardcore right-winger you love to hate. Those circumstances don't mean physical trauma. It just means, had you been born into a conservative family in a conservative area, odds are you'd be a conservative. And it certainly seems like your personality tends towards extremism, so you'd probably be a far-right loudmouth. I'm sure you believe this isn't true, or possible. That's fine, I can't make you believe it. But it's something to think about with your harsh characterization of people across the aisle. You never try to empathize or sympathize with them, so don't ask them to empathize with you. But also... you're not so different as you think.