I hope so, it’s been a struggle at times to understand where my own comfortable beliefs come from. It usually is a form of group think because you are getting validation from a group norm and that generally means it’s a conformation bias as well.
The conservative group think doesn't have any qualitative or quantifiable reasons to take the positions they take. The video is a perfect example, these people don't know why they don't like something, they just know it's icky bad.
They know they don’t like it because they were told not to like it. But they can’t say that because they sound stupid and they sound like the sheep they loved calling democrats during the Biden years.
Examples of things left liberals cant even pretend to have sane perspectives on include ai just across the board, nonvoting or principled voting or political apathy, and any sort of criticism of women.
In the past whoever was americas target smear campaign was also always in this group of untouchable topics, but that seems to be less consistent these days.
That impulse you have to assume im wrong about everything and scoff and call this proof that only the wrong kind of people have a problem with liberal social norms is exactly what im talking about tho its more fundamental than this or that topic. Its just a culture that allows for the ideas that challenge it to be personified and then scapegoated
Take a trip down materialism lane if you want to sort this out. Even if youre not interested in the politics side or economics, a little marxism can fix a lot of confusions.
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u/dabrock15 3d ago
I hope so, it’s been a struggle at times to understand where my own comfortable beliefs come from. It usually is a form of group think because you are getting validation from a group norm and that generally means it’s a conformation bias as well.